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Topic: Canadian Space Agency astronaut trading cards
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 04-11-2005 12:42 PM
   
London Free Press: Canadian astronauts in the cards Astronaut Chris Hadfield collected NASA memorabilia, National Geographic charts and postage stamps when he was a kid, but never trading cards. And, certainly, he never imagined himself depicted on one. He didn't start out as much of a reader, either. But now the 45-year-old mechanical engineer, jet pilot, poet and musician finds himself pictured on the front of a trading card promoting reading."I never looked at a trading card and thought 'Someday I'm going to have my picture on one of these,'" Hadfield said. "Absolutely not. That is a stature and a status I never thought I'd obtain." But he and Canada's other five astronauts have achieved just that as part of a children's summer reading program in libraries across the country. |
pokey
Member Posts: 361
From: Houston, TX, USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 04-11-2005 06:51 PM
If anyone knows how I can get my hands on a few sets... |
poolman18
Member Posts: 225
From: Ontario,Canada
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 04-11-2005 07:23 PM
I am working on it as we speak. |
Mike Isbell
Member Posts: 551
From: Silver Spring, Maryland USA
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 04-12-2005 10:12 AM
By my count eight astronauts from Canada have flown on the shuttle. Which two astronauts are not going to be on the trading cards? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 04-12-2005 10:24 AM
My understanding is that they are only being issued for the active members of the CSA corps: Chris Hadfield, Dave Williams, Bjarni Tryggvason, Bob Thirsk, Julie Payette and Steve MacLean |
KSCartist
Member Posts: 2896
From: Titusville, FL USA
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 04-12-2005 08:16 PM
If anyone can obtain a complete set of the Canadian cards for me I will trade my duplicates of the old Man on the Moon cards from the 60's and 70's. I also have some dupes of the Space Shots. |
TrueNorth
Member Posts: 161
From: Bathurst, NB, Canada
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted 04-13-2005 08:38 AM
I'll see what I can do, but first you're going to have to read 50 books this summer.  |
KSCartist
Member Posts: 2896
From: Titusville, FL USA
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 04-15-2005 08:02 AM
If they're all as short as the "Dick & Jane" books of my childhood-no problem. |
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