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Space missions

Order by the year of the mission or milestone. You get one card and a line of cards already in place — slot it where it belongs. Three wrong guesses and the run is over.

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65
Cards
3
Lives per run
release years and dates
Ordered by
Mission photo
Card reveal

How Space missions is played

Every card in this deck carries a hidden value on the same scale — release years and dates — and the run is one long sorting problem. The first card is dealt face up. Each card after it goes into the gap where you think it belongs, and the value only shows once it lands. Get it wrong three times and the run ends with whatever you had placed. Cards in this deck also flip: place one and you can turn it over for mission photo.

This deck can also be shuffled together with any other deck measured in release years and dates — tick several on the deck tree to build one longer timeline out of them.

What's in the deck

28 of the 65 cards you could be dealt, plus 37 more. The values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Laika aboard Sputnik 2 First animal in orbit
  • Explorer 1 First US satellite
  • Luna 3 photographs the far side Soviet Union
  • Friendship 7 John Glenn orbits Earth
  • Mariner 4 flies past Mars NASA
  • Luna 9 First soft Moon landing
  • Apollo 11 First Moon landing
  • Venera 7 lands on Venus Soviet Union
  • Salyut 1 First space station
  • Pioneer 10 First Jupiter flyby
  • Viking 1 First successful Mars lander
  • Voyager 2 Only craft to visit all four giants
  • Challenger disaster Shuttle lost after launch
  • Voyager 2 reaches Uranus NASA
  • Hubble Space Telescope Launched aboard Discovery
  • Shoemaker-Levy 9 hits Jupiter Observed worldwide
  • Cassini-Huygens launch NASA & ESA
  • ISS first module Zarya launched
  • Cassini reaches Saturn Orbital insertion
  • New Horizons launch Bound for Pluto
  • Hayabusa returns asteroid samples JAXA
  • Voyager 1 enters interstellar space Beyond the heliopause
  • New Horizons passes Pluto Flyby
  • InSight lands on Mars Elysium Planitia
  • Crew Dragon Demo-2 SpaceX & NASA
  • Perseverance lands Jezero Crater
  • DART hits an asteroid NASA
  • Osiris-REx returns Bennu samples NASA

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