1958 Sanitarium Health Food Co : Reaching for the Moon / Destination Moon
Reaching for the Moon trading cards were released in 1958 by the Sanitarium Health Food Company in
Australia and New Zealand. The 25-card series was distributed with boxes of
Granose, San Bran, and Weet-Bix. The collection includes a photograph of a U.S. Army V-2 and early concept designs for space exploration.
Destination Moon: The Story of Man's First Venture into Space was released in 1959. The 50-card expansion series includes an illustration of Sputnik 1 and the Martin Viking #9 sounding rocket. Destination Moon cards were distributed with packets of 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. A copy of the album is held in the
collection of the National Library of Australia.
"Rocket Firing Platform" features a U.S. Army Signal Corps. V-2
rocket being prepared for launch. The photograph was published in the September
1946 issue of The National Geographic Magazine.
"Viking Rocket Take-Off" depicts 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.
| Reaching for the Moon Checklist | |
| 1 | Proposed Space Station |
| 2 | Observational Rocket Ship |
| 3 | Planned Rocket Crash |
| 4 | Our Solar System |
| 5 | Eclipse of Sun by Moon |
| 6 | Earth's Atmosphere |
| 7 | The Moon |
| 8 | Moon Exploration |
| 9 | How a Space Rocket Works |
| 10 | 3-Stage Rocket |
| 11 | Rocket Firing Platform |
| 12 | Testing Rocket Motor |
| 13 | Tracking Flying Rockets |
| 14 | Rocket Motor Explained |
| 15 | Future Space Suit |
| 16 | Weightlessness |
| 17 | When to See a Satellite |
| 18 | Burn-Out of a Satellite |
| 19 | Creating Permanent Orbit |
| 20 | Orbiting the Moon (Moon's 'Unknown' Side') |
| 21 | A Moon Landing |
| 22 | A Space Kayak |
| 23 | A Planetary Drone |
| 24 | |
| 25 | World's Largest Telescope |
| Destination Moon Checklist | |
| 1 | Features of the Sun |
| 2 | Eclipse of Sun by Earth |
| 3 | Our Solar System |
| 4 | Eclipse of Sun by Moon |
| 5 | Mercury Our Smallest Planet |
| 6 | Mercury's Surface |
| 7 | Venus |
| 8 | Earth's Atmosphere |
| 9 | The Moon |
| 10 | Moon Exploration |
| 11 | Earth from the Moon |
| 12 | Mars |
| 13 | Martian Landscape |
| 14 | Jupiter |
| 15 | Jupiter's Red Spot |
| 16 | Typical Asteroid |
| 17 | Saturn |
| 18 | Mt. Stromlo |
| 19 | Uranus |
| 20 | Neptune |
| 21 | Pluto |
| 22 | Halley's Comet |
| 23 | A Meteor's Path |
| 24 | World's Largest Telescope |
| 25 | How Telescopes Work |
| 26 | How a Space Rocket Works |
| 27 | 3-Stage Rocket |
| 28 | Rocket Firing Platform |
| 29 | Testing Rocket Motor |
| 30 | Viking Rocket Take-off |
| 31 | Rocket Launching Plane |
| 32 | Rocket Launching Balloon |
| 33 | Tracking Flying Rockets |
| 34 | Rocket Motor Explained |
| 35 | Future Space Suit |
| 36 | Weightlessness |
| 37 | Man's First Satellite |
| 38 | When to See a Satellite |
| 39 | Burn-Out of a Satellite |
| 40 | Creating Permanent Orbit |
| 41 | Proposed Space Station |
| 42 | Observational Rocket Ship |
| 43 | Asteroid Type Space Ship |
| 44 | Planned Rocket Crash |
| 45 | Moon Exploration |
| 46 | A Moon Landing |
| 47 | A Space Kayak |
| 48 | A Planetary Drone |
| 49 | Braking into Orbit |
| 50 | A Radio Telescope |