Destination Moon: The Story of Man's First Venture into Space was issued in 1959 by the Sanitarium Health Food Company in Australia and New Zealand. The 50-card "picture plate" collection includes illustrations of the V-2, Sputnik 1, the Martin Viking #9 sounding rocket, and early concept designs for space exploration. The back of each Destination Moon card is blank.

Destination Moon is an expansion of Reach for the Moon, a 25-card series released in 1958 by Sanitarium. The Reach for the Moon card series was distributed with boxes of Granose, San Bran, and Weet-Bix.

One card was included with each packet of breakfast cereals from Sanitarium: Bixies, Cerix, Corn Flakes, Granose, Puffed Rice San Bran, Weet-Bix, and Weet Puffs. A 12-page Destination Moon collector album was available by mail order from the Sanitarium Health Food Company office. The album is held in the collection of the National Library of Australia.

"Viking Rocket Take-Off" describes the launch of the U.S. Navy Viking #9 sounding rocket. Viking #9 was fired from White Sands Proving Ground on December 15, 1952. The single-stage Martin RTV-N-12a rocket travelled to an apogee of 134 miles (217 km) . The experiment package measured cosmic radiation in the upper atmosphere.