1990–1992 Space Ventures, Inc. : Space Shots


Space Ventures, Inc. : Space Shots: The Trading Card of the Future

The Space Shots trading card series was produced from 1990–1992 by Space Ventures, Inc. of Houston, Texas. The collection showcases the history of space exploration from Yuri Gagarin to the maiden flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour. Three of four planned card series were produced, each containing 110 cards. An embossed Moon Mars set of 36 cards was released in 1991.

1991 Space Shots Series 2 - 0156 - Gemini 4 White EVA

Series 1–2 packs contain 12 cards. The first Commemorative Set was limited to 25,000 boxes that sold out within 10 months. Series 3 packs contain 8 cards. Series 3 includes a hologram chase card of the Apollo 8 "Earthrise" photograph. Command Module Pilot James Lovell signed 1,000 numbered copies of the hologram.

Series 1–3 each contain 25 of 100 different "Space Trivia Challenge" questions. The first 100 correct respondents were promised part of a $150,000 scholarship prize. The last 25 questions were never issued and the scholarship prizes were not awarded.

1990 Space Shots Series 1 - 0056 - Apollo 1 Crew


Space Ventures, Inc. was founded by Ed White III, son of Gemini 4 and Apollo 1 astronaut Edward White II. The project was funded by several astronauts that included Michael Collins, Eugene Cernan, and James Lovell. In exchange for a $160,000 loan, 25% of the card sales were promised to the Astronaut Memorial Foundation. A state audit revealed that royalty payments amounting to $400,000 were never forwarded to the foundation. Various astronauts have since contractually refused to autograph Space Shots cards.


1990 Series 1 : 0001–0110
0001 The Astronauts Memorial
0002 Frank Borman
0003 STS 41-B 1st Untethered EVA
0004 Edward H. White II
0005 STS 41-B 1st Landing At KSC
0006 Thomas P. Stafford
0007 STS 41-D "Frisbee" Deployment
0008 James A. Lovell
0009 Skylab 1 - After Repair In Orbit
0010 Charles D. Walker
0011 Space Station Freedom
0012 Gemini 9 - The Approach To Agena
0013 Apollo 15 - Irwin Salutes The Flag
0014 Gemini 10 - Launch
0015 Gemini 11 - Gordon EVA
0016 Gemini 11 - Agena
0017 Apollo 7 - Launch
0018 Apollo 7 - Third Stage Over Cape
0019 Apollo 8 - Launch
0020 Apollo 8 - Far Side Of The Moon
0021 Friendship 7 - 1st U.S. Orbital Flight
0022 Apollo 8 - First Whole Earth
0023 Apollo 9 - Scott EVA
0024 Apollo 10 - CSM Over Lunar Surface
0025 Apollo 10 - Pacific Dawn Landing
0026 Apollo Lunar Module
0027 Freedom 7 - 1st U.S. Manned Flight
0028 Apollo 11 - LM Pulls Away From CM
0029 Apollo 16 - CSM And Earthrise
0030 Faith 7 - Launch
0031 Apollo 11 - First Moonprint
0032 Apollo 11 - Tranquility Base
0033 Apollo 11 - Lift-off From The Moon
0034 Apollo 11 - LM Ascent to CM
0035 Apollo 12 - LM Over Crater Ptolemaeus
0036 Apollo 13 - Damaged CSM
0037 Apollo 14 - LM Lift-Off
0038 Apollo 15 - 1st Lunar Rover
0039 Apollo 14 - Tracks On Moon
0040 Walter M. Schirra, Jr.
0041 Gemini Spacecraft
0042 Apollo 16 - Young At Lunar Rover
0043 Apollo 17 - Schmitt With Flag
0044 Apollo 17 - Schmitt In Lunar Rover
0045 Apollo 17 - CM From LM
0046 Apollo 17 - "Split Rock"
0047 Apollo 17 - Evans EVA
0048 STS 61-B EVA Assembly Of EASE
0049 Skylab 1 - EVA Repair
0050 Jupiter - The Giant Planet
0051 Skylab 3 - Solar Flare
0052 Lunar Roving Vehicle
0053 The Shuttle - On Pad At KSC
0054 STS 1 - 1st Shuttle Launch
0055 STS 1 - 1st Shuttle Landing
0056 Apollo 1 - Crew
0057 Neptune - The Blue Planet
0058 Apollo 8 - A Mission Of Firsts
0059 Saturn - From Hubble
0060 Gemini 4 - Crew
0061 Checklist: 0001-0110 CL
0062 Alan L. Bean
0063 Venus - The Sister Planet
0064 Donald "Deke" Slayton
0065 Uranus - From Voyager 2
0066 Eugene A. Cernan
0067 STS 41-G 1st Female EVA
0068 STS 51 - A Rescue of Westar
0069 STS 51-A "For Sale"
0070 STS 51-I Rescue Of Leasat-3
0071 STS 51-I Fisher On RMS Arm
0072 Mars - The Red Planet
0073 STS 26 "Return To Flight"
0074 Apollo 17 - Cernan On Lunar Surface
0075 New York - From Space
0076 Skylab 2 - Moonrise
0077 Gemini 3 - Launch
0078 Gemini 4 - 1st Self-Propelled EVA
0079 Gemini 4 - Inside Capsule
0080 San Francisco - From Space
0081 STS 30 Magellan Deployment
0082 Gemini 7 - First Rendezvous
0083 Skylab 3 - Approach To Skylab
0084 Walter Cunningham
0085 Apollo / Souyuz Test Mission
0086 Mercury Spacecraft
0087 Apollo 16 - Jump And Salute
0088 Gemini 9 - "Angry Alligator"
0089 STS 2 Launch
0090 STS 5 1st Satellite Deployment
0091 Apollo 14 - Shepard On The Moon
0092 STS 6 1st Shuttle EVA
0093 STS 7 Challenger From SPAS
0094 STS 8 Night Launch
0095 Skylab - The Craft
0096 STS 41-B MMU
0097 Apollo 17 - Last Earthrise
0098 STS 41-C Capture Of Solar Max
0099 Apollo 11 - Launch
0100 Alan B. Shepard, Jr.
0101 Freedom 7 - Shepard's Recovery
0102 Michael Collins
0103 Gemini 6 - 1st Rendezvous
0104 Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr.
0105 Apollo 8 - 1st Earthrise
0106 Richard F. Gordon, Jr.
0107 Apollo 11 - Aldrin Moonwalk
0108 James A. McDivitt
0109 Gemini 4 - 1st U.S. Spacewalk
0110 Buzz Aldrin
1991 Series 2 : 0111–0220
0111 Neil A. Armstrong
0112 Apollo 11 Crew
0113 Virgil I. Grissom
0114 Gordon L. Cooper, Jr.
0115 Scott M. Carpenter
0116 Bill Dana, A.K.A. Jose Jimenez
0117 James B. Irwin
0118 Harrison "Jack" Schmitt
0119 Charles M. Duke, Jr.
0120 Edgar D. Mitchell
0121 Alfred M. Worden
0122 Stuart A. Roosa
0123 Fred W. Haise, Jr.
0124 Owen K. Garriott (misspelled Garriot)
0125 Edward G. Gibson
0126 Pogue and Carr - "Magic Trick"
0127 Jack R. Lousma
0128 Mike Mullane - Onboard Atlantis
0129 John M. Fabian
0130 Bruce McCandless II
0131 George "Pinky" Nelson
0132 Joe Allen - On Columbia's Flight Deck
0133 Bill Nelson
0134 Bobko and Williams - Juggling Fruit
0135 Alexei A. Leonov / Donald Slayton
0136 30th Anniversary - Mercury 2
0137 30th Anniversary - Freedom 7
0138 30th Anniversary - Liberty Bell 7
0139 25th Anniversary - Gemini 8
0140 25th Anniversary - Surveyor 1
0141 25th Anniversary - Gemini 9
0142 25th Anniversary - Gemini 10
0143 25th Anniversary - Gemini 11
0144 25th Anniversary - Gemini 12
0145 20th Anniversary - Apollo 14
0146 20th Anniversary - Apollo 15
0147 20th Anniversary - Mariner 9
0148 15th Anniversary - Viking 1
0149 15th Anniversary - Viking 2
0150 10th Anniversary - STS 1
0151 10th Anniversary - STS 2
0152 10th Anniversary - Voyager 2 At Saturn
0153 5th Anniversary - STS 61C
0154 5th Anniversary - Voyager 2 At Uranus
0155 5th Anniversary - STS 51L - Challenger
0156 Gemini 4 - White EVA
0157 Gemini 9 - Cernan Spacewalk
0158 Apollo 7 - After Liftoff
0159 Apollo 8 - Full Moon
0160 Apollo 9 - LM From CM
0161 Apollo 10 - Whole Earth
0162 Apollo 11 - Liftoff
0163 Apollo 11 - Aldrin Near LM Leg
0164 Apollo 11 - Setting Up Flag
0165 Apollo 11 - LM With Earthrise
0166 Apollo 11 - LM Inside Third Stage
0167 Apollo 12 - Beam Deploying ALSEP
0168 Apollo 12 - Conrad At Surveyor 3
0169 Apollo 13 - Launch
0170 Apollo 16 - Duke At Rover
0171 Apollo 17 - Whole Earth
0172 Apollo 17 - Cernan Salutes Flag
0173 Apollo 17 - Schmitt Drives Rover
0174 Skylab 2 - Garriott EVA
0175 Apollo-Soyuz - Soyuz Launch
0176 STS-1 - On Pad With Superimposed Moon
0177 STS 41B - Stewart with MMU
0178 STS 41C - Tumbling EVA
0179 STS 41C - Nelson At Solar Max
0180 STS 41C - LDEF Deployment
0181 STS 51A - Allen Maneuvers Satellite
0182 STS 51D - Working On RMS Arm
0183 STS 51J - Atlantis' Maiden Voyage
0184 STS 51J - Atlantis Climbs Into Orbit
0185 STS 61B - Checking Joints on ACCESS
0186 STS 30 - Deployment Of Magellan
0187 STS 34 - Galileo Deployment
0188 STS 32 - LDEF Recovery
0189 STS 31 - Hubble Deployment
0190 STS 31 - Hubble In Orbit
0191 STS 41 - Ulysses Deployment
0192 STS 35 - Astro Deployed
0193 STS 37 - Gamma Ray Observatory
0194 Moon From Galileo
0195 Galileo - Color Visualization Of Moon
0196 Neptune From Voyager 2
0197 Jupiter From Voyager 1
0198 Solar Flare from Skylab 3
0199 Mars From Hubble
0200 Mars - Olympus Mons
0201 Saturn "Burps"
0202 Mercury Mosaic
0203 Jupiter's Moon Io
0204 Venus From Magellan
0205 Jupiter Moon Montage
0206 Saturn Moon Montage
0207 Voyager 2 - Uranus Flyby
0208 Solar Sail
0209 Biosphere 2
0210 Spacecraft At Neptune
0211 Galileo Passing IO
0212 Omega Centauri From Astro
0213 Galaxy M-81 From Astro
0214 Supernova 1987A From Hubble
0215 Redesigned Space Station Freedom
0216 Industrial Space Facility
0217 Mars Observer Mission
0218 Astronauts Exploring Mars
0219 The Astronauts Memorial
0220 Checklist: 0111-0220 CL
1992 Series 3 : 0221–0330
0221 Yuri A. Gagarin
0222 Vladimir A. Dzhanibekov
0223 Anatoly N. Berezovoi
0224 Yuri N. Glazkov
0225 Viktor V. Gorbatko
0226 Pyotr I. Klimuk
0227 Valery N. Kubasov
0228 Alexei A. Leonov
0229 Leonid I. Popov
0230 Yuri V. Romanenko
0231 Vladimir A. Solovyov
0232 Valentina V. Tereshkova
0233 Alexander A. Volkov
0234 Sultan Salman Ai-Saud
0235 Reinhard Furrer
0236 Rakesh Sharma
0237 Patrick Baudry
0238 Georgi Ivanov
0239 Gagarin Launch - Vostok 1
0240 Landing of Soyuz
0241 Soyuz 19 from Apollo
0242 Salyut 6 - Kovalyonok EVA
0243 Soyuz 36 - Prior to Launch
0244 Kizim Outside Salyut 7
0245 Savitskaya - 1st Female EVA
0246 Salyut 7 - "Dead" Space Station
0247 Salyut 7 - After Rescue
0248 MIR in Orbit
0249 Soyuz TM 2 - Nighttime Launch
0250 Energia on pad
0251 MIR from Soyuz TM-4
0252 Buran VKK and Energia
0253 Soyuz TM 7 - Chretien EVA
0254 MIR - Docked to Progress and Soyuz
0255 Ariane 4 - Evening Launch
0256 Ariane 4 - Being Fueled on Pad
0257 H-1 Rocket - On Pad at Tanegashima Space Center
0258 NASDA - Tsukuba Space Center
0259 Japanese Experiments - For Shuttle
0260 H-1 Launches Satellite
0261 Apollo 11 Crew on Gantry
0262 James A. Lovell
0263 Russell "Rusty" Schweickart
0264 Eugene A. Cernan
0265 Donald H. Peterson
0266 Frederick "Rick" Hauck
0267 Michael J. McCulley
0268 James D. van Hoften (misspelled von Hoften)
0269 Jake E. Garn
0270 Clifton "C.C." Williams, Jr.
0271 Jon A. McBride
0272 Robert F. Overmyer
0273 Buzz Aldrin - In Lunar Module
0274 Crew of Gemini 4
0275 Bruce McCandless II
0276 Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr.
0277 Freedom 7 - Helicopter Recovery
0278 Friendship 7 - Liftoff Over Cape
0279 Gemini 4 - 1st U.S. EVA
0280 Gemini 7 - 1st Rendezvous
0281 Gemini 8 - 1st Docking
0282 Apollo Saturn V on Pad
0283 Apollo 11 - Aldrin Leaving LM
0284 Apollo 17 - Cernan on Moon
0285 Skylab in Orbit
0286 Apollo Soyuz - "Handshake in Space"
0287 Cut-Away View of Space Shuttle
0288 Enterprise on 747
0289 STS 1 - Columbia Moves to Pad
0290 STS 6 - Challenger 1st Launch
0291 STS 7 - Shuttle in Orbit
0292 STS 41B - McCandless EVA
0293 STS 41B - McCandless on RMS Arm
0294 STS 41C - LDEF After Deployment
0295 STS 41C - Solar Max Repair
0296 STS 41D - Discovery's 1st Launch
0297 STS 41D - Satellite Deployment
0298 STS 51A - Westar 6 Rescue
0299 STS 51I - Satellite Rescue
0300 STS 29 - After Separation
0301 STS 31 - Hubble Deployment
0302 STS 39 - Aurora Australis
0303 STS 43 - Atlantis Launch
0304 STS 44 - Defense Satellite Deployment
0305 STS 49 - Endeavour Rescue Mission
0306 STS 49 - 1st "Mom" Makes EVA
0307 Mercury from Mariner 10
0308 Venus - "Maat Mons" From Magellan
0309 Venus - Composite View
0310 Earth from Apollo 4
0311 Earth from Galileo
0312 Moon from Apollo 11
0313 Mars - Valles Marineris
0314 Mars Observer Mission
0315 Jupiter - "Great Red Spot"
0316 Saturn from Voyager 1
0317 Uranus - Enhanced Color
0318 Neptune and Triton after Flyby
0319 Pluto and Charon
0320 Return to the Moon
0321 Cassini Mission
0322 Mission to Mars - Spacecraft Cut-Away
0323 The Milky Way Galaxy
0324 Aerospace Plane
0325 Space Station Freedom and Beyond
0326 STS 40 - Persian Gulf From Space
0327 Satellite View of Los Angeles
0328 Michigan State - From Space
0329 Cape Canaveral - From Space
0330 Checklist: 0221-0330 CL
Hologram
HOLOGRAM-1 Apollo 8 - The First Earthrise
HOLOGRAM-1 Autographed by James A. Lovell #/1,000
Promos
1990 Series 1 Promos
1 of 9 James A. Lovell
2 of 9 Bruce McCandless II
3 of 9 Vladimir Dzhanibekov
4 of 9 Gemini 7 - 1st Rendezvous
5 of 9 STS 41-B McCandless EVA
6 of 9 Salyut 7 - After Rescue
7 of 9 Apollo 17 - Cernan on Moon
8 of 9 Yuri Gagarin
9 of 9 Apollo 11 - Aldrin Leaving
The Astronaut Memorial Foundation
Uncut Sheet
PROMO James A. Lovell
PROMO Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr.
PROMO Eugene A. Cernan
PROMO Apollo 8 - 1st Earthrise
PROMO Pete Conrad - Holding Camera
PROMO Apollo 17 - Cernan Salutes Flag
International Space Milestones-I
Uncut Sheet #/9500
James A. Lovell
Bruce McCandless II
Vladimir Dzhanibekov
Gemini 7 - 1st Rendezvous
STS 41-B McCandless EVA
Salyut 7 - After Rescue
1991 Moon Mars Special Edition
1 The Astronauts Memorial
2 Alan Shawn Feinstein
3 Face on Mars
4 Neil A. Armstrong - Apollo 11
5 Neil Armstrong - Inside LM on Moon
6 Buzz Aldrin - Apollo 11
7 Buzz Aldrin - Moonwalk
8 Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr. - Apollo 12
9 Pete Conrad - Holding Camera
10 Alan L. Bean - Apollo 12
11 Alan Bean - Carrying ALSEP
12 Alan B. Shepard, Jr. - Apollo 14
13 Alan Shepard - Holding Flag
14 Edgar D. Mitchell - Apollo 14
15 Ed Mitchell - Consulting Map
16 David R. Scott - Apollo 15
17 Dave Scott - Saluting the Flag
18 James B. Irwin - Apollo 15
19 Jim Irwin - Next to Rover
20 John Young - Jump and Salute
21 Charles M. Duke - Apollo 16
22 Charlie Duke - At Plum Crater
23 Eugene A. Cernan - Apollo 17
24 Gene Cernan - Saluting
25 Harrison "Jack" Schmitt - Apollo 17
26 Jack Schmitt - With Flag and Earthrise
27 Mars - The Red Planet
28 Space Exploration Initiative
29 Viking - On Martian Surface
30 Mars Observer Mission
31 Mission to Mars - Phobos Base
32 U.S. - Soviet Joint Mission to Mars
33 Direct Mission to Mars
34 The Case for Mars Mission
35 Mars Mission - Transit System
36 The Journey
1991 Moon Mars Proof Set
Limited to 175
NNO The Astronuats Memorial, May 9, 1991
PROOF SET Alan B. Shepard, Jr. - Apollo 14
PROOF SET Eugene A. Cernan - Apollo 17
PROOF SET Neil A. Armstrong - Apollo 11
PROOF SET The Astronauts Memorial
PROOF SET The Journey