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Old 11-06-2016, 05:14 PM
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Originally Posted by blink138 View Post
i had cause only this week to remember one of the my first experiences in astronomy
professor cox flicking through his first (and mine) astronomy book called "the race into space", it was a card collecting book actually and the cards were found in a brand of loose leaf tea packets!
i really loved that book!
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PG Tips Pat. I still have the full set in the album along with many other sets from years before.

If I remember correctly, one of the last few cards depicted was an artists impression of the proposed manned flight to Mars in 1981 (which was at that time a decade or so in the future).
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