1969 Brooke Bond Canada : The Space Age (L'Âge Spatial)
The Space Age (L'Âge Spatial) card series was released in 1969 by
Brooke Bond Canada Limited. The cards were included with Red Rose and Blue
Ribbon tea and coffee from Brooke Bond Canada. The complete 48-card set was available by mail
order for 50 cents, or one cent for each individual card. A fold-out poster
was available from retailers.
The collection features missions from the Soviet Vostok program, Project Mercury, Project Gemini, and concept artwork for Project Apollo. The series was painted by Helmut K. Wimmer, artist for the Hayden Planetarium. The text was curated by Thomas D. Nicholson, director of the American Museum of Natural History, and Dr. Henry C. King, curator of the McLaughlin Planetarium.
| Checklist | |
| 1 | X-15 Rocket Plane |
| 2 | Space Suit |
| 3 | Falling Stars |
| 4 | Fireball |
| 5 | Meteor Crater |
| 6 | Aurora Borealis |
| 7 | Radiation Belts |
| 8 | Rainbow |
| 9 | Sundogs |
| 10 | Observatory |
| 11 | Solar Telescope |
| 12 | Radio Telescope |
| 13 | Stratoscope 2 |
| 14 | Sputnik 1 |
| 15 | First Spaceman |
| 16 | Space Walk |
| 17 | Orbiting Solar Observatory |
| 18 | Communication Satellite |
| 19 | Docking in Space |
| 20 | Surveyor on the Moon |
| 21 | Moon's Surface |
| 22 | To the Moon |
| 23 | First Stage Separation |
| 24 | Third Stage Separation |
| 25 | Moon Explorers |
| 26 | Blast-off from the Moon |
| 27 | Space Rendezvous |
| 28 | Splashdown |
| 29 | The Planets |
| 30 | Solar System |
| 31 | Earth |
| 32 | Mercury |
| 33 | Venus |
| 34 | Mars |
| 35 | Jupiter |
| 36 | Saturn |
| 37 | Uranus |
| 38 | Neptune |
| 39 | Pluto |
| 40 | Halley's Comet |
| 41 | Death of a Comet |
| 42 | Sun's Surface |
| 43 | Sun's Evolution |
| 44 | Binary Star |
| 45 | Horsehead Nebula |
| 46 | Our Galaxy |
| 47 | Sun's Endless Journey |
| 48 | Galaxies |
