1959 Sanitarium Health Food Company : Destination Moon

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 an illustration of Sputnik 1, photographs of a U.S. Army V-2, 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. A copy of the album is held in the collection of the National Library of Australia.

"Rocket Firing Platform" is a U.S. Army Signal Corps. photograph of a V-2 rocket being prepared for launch. The photo 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.