On today’s date in 1969, two dudes landed on the moon. The first dudes on the moon. Pretty major accomplishment. And yes, there are trading cards of the event!

I rarely post cards or items that aren’t mine. Every once in a while, I see something so cool that I want to be able to share it to other people can see it as well. The Mantle community is great for this! Check out this cut autograph by NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin created in a booklet style format with an amazing American flag patch. Truly one of a kind item!

Another spaaaaaaaaace themed card, this time a recent one. Brett Favre is staying in low-earth orbit aboard the shuttle on this 2024 Topps Cosmic Chrome “First Flight Signatures” card. Hits my Packers, 1990’s, and space PC’s all in one great card!

I was putting a boxed set of early 1990’s Space Shots cards in a binder recently, and I got to the last card and found a hologram! I had no idea it was part of the set. Since it was numbered “HOLOGRAM 1”, I went looking to see if there were other hologram cards in the set. Turns out it’s just this one, but…

there were 1000 randomly inserted hologram cards autographed by Jim Lovell! Naturally, had to go find myself one, and here it is! Lovell was on the Apollo 13 mission, but he had also flown on Apollo 8, where the famous “Earthrise” picture was taken and the hologram of that is the front of this card.