1962 Nestle's Australian Space Club Cards

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1962 Nestle's Australian Space Club Cards

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						01						The fall of Icarus, an early legend of flight.
						02						Man's first powered, controlled flight by the Wright brothers, on December 17, 1903, lasted 12 seconds.
						03						The Great Bear Constellation.
						04						Heavenly bodies helped site some pyramids.
						05						Sun's noon shadow shows north-south line.
						06						The pull of the Sun and the Moon causes tides.
						07						The first manned free flight in history took place in France in 1783. The balloon rose 3,000 feet, flew 6 miles.
						08						Transmitter and van, Muchea, W. Australia.
						09						At Muchea Western Australia Project Mercury equipment.
						10						X15 space plane and B52 "mother" aircraft.
						11						The X15, designed for speeds of over 4,000 m.p.h.
						12						Dr. R.H. Goddard, pioneer of modern rocketry.
						13						Russian Ziolkovsky's early space ship design.
						14						Early space fiction by writer Cyrano de Bergerac described ingenious but unworkable "hot air" space ship.
						15						Monaco stamp honours writer Jules Verne.
						16						U.S. space suit for heat and height protection.
						17						Making your own rocket, USA
						18						Kinetheodolite can track satellites by eye.
						19						Jindivik MK2B pilotless target aircraft.
						20						Russian stamp honours Lunik I moon rocket.
						21						U.S. Titan missile's "silo" launch.
						22						Thor, Snark, Jupiter surfacetosurface missles.
						23						Atlas family. The Atlas was America's first ICBM.
						24						Four U.S. "Nike" guided missles on launchers at various degrees of elevation. Official U.S. Army Photo.
						25						"Bloodhound", a British ground-to-air guided missle.
						26						"Thor" missile, 62 ft. high, has 2,000 miles range.
						27						The U.S.N. nuclear submarine "Patrick Henry".
						28						Jupiter missile, also used for space rocketry.
						29						Polaris missle, launched from submarines.
						30						"Blue Water", British short range missile.
						31						Sputnik I, launched by Russia on 4th October, 1957.
						32						First Russian author on space, Ziolkovsky.
						33						Model of Sputnik II, launched 3rd November, 1957.
						34						Roumanian stamp of animal space travellers.
						35						Parachute jump from 20 miles up.
						36						Gondola of U.S. high altitude balloon.
						37						U.S. space monkey Ham has medical checkup.
						38						U.S. Vanguard ready for launching. Official U.S. Navy photo.
						39						The orbits of some early artificial satellites. Over 60 have been launched.
						40						Wind tunnel test of manned space capsule.
						42						Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom, second U.S. spaceman.
						43						Mercury space capsule practice water landing.
						44						Centrifuge produces high "g" forces on man.
						45						Device to simulate capsule pitch and yaw.
						46						Artist's impression of Mercury escape capsule.
						47						Major Yuri Gagarin, first Soviet spaceman.
						48						Weightlessness experiments in aircraft.
						49						Last stage of a Soviet Rocket
						50						Major Herman Titov, Russia's second spaceman.
						51						Orbits of planets in our solar system, showing positions relative to the Sun.
						52						Relative sizes of planets to scale.
						53						Earth's shadow causes eclipse of the Moon
						54						"Strong Arm", an example of a research rocket.
						55						Echo I, Communications Satellite.
						56						Giant Jadrell Bank Radio Telescope.
						57						Stamp honours Russia's Venus space probe.
						58						Earth's two neighbors, Venus and Mars.
						59						Saturn's famous "rings" form perfect plane.
						61						Artist's impression of scene on Moon's surface.
						62						Lunik II stamp. Probe hit Moon September, 1959.
						63						Diagram showing how typical rocket works.
						64						Diagram showing meaning of "mass ratio".
						65						Diagram of typical three-stage rocket emphasises small final payload achieved.
						66						Diagram of "speed/mass ratio" relationship.
						67						Artist's impression of a landing on the moon.
						68						Czech stamp of Lunik III, which took Moon photos.
						69						Russian space vehicle photographing Moon.
						70						Russian "moon photograph" satellite model.
						71						Mars spaceship concept by Dr. von Braun.
						72						Impression of four-man Atlas space station.
						73						Martin Company steel space ship for five.
						74						Stuhlinger’s electrically powered spaceship.
						75						Drawing of new crew arriving at space station.
						76						U.S. Army Courier satellite can transmit voice from outer space to ground. Official U.S. Army photo.
						77						Giant electronic computers
						78						Antenna "listens" to distant Courier message.
						79						Closeup of Mercury Atlas nose cone.
						80						Mercury Redstone, pre-launch picture.
						81						Pioneer space probe payload package.
						82						Explorer VIII satellite on Juno II.
						83						Pioneer III on NASA space probe Juno II.
						84						A United Kingdom rocket, Black Knight.
						85						Discoverer satellites prove vehicle designs.
						86						USAF Air Force Captain
						88						Pioneer V with solar power paddlewheels.
						90						Major D. Simons U.S.A.F. balloon reached 102,000 feet.
						91						Alternate design for Mars spaceship.
						92						SNAP generator provides atomic power.
						93						Artist's impression to the Moon and back.
						94						"Discoverer" with 2 SNAP I-A generators.
						95						Solar "sails" turn sunlight into electricity.
						96						Artist's impression of nuclear space station.
						97						Impression of an orbiting space station.
						98						Artist illustrates building of space station. Men and components are all weightless.
						99						Dynasoar in piloted near-orbital flight.
						100						A special TITAN boosts Dynasoar space glider. Official U.S. Air Force photo.