1986 Grain Products : Space Exploration
The Space Exploration trading card series was issued in 1986 by the
Grain Products Ltd. of Auckland, New Zealand. The cards were included with
boxes of Kornies and Vita-Brits breakfast cereals. A free
Space Exploration collector poster was available at grocers. The
complete 20-card collection was available by mail order. Collectors could swap cards with Grain Products by mail to complete a set.
The series includes a photograph taken aboard Space Shuttle Challenger STS-41C in April 1984. Mission Specialist James van
Hoften is pictured with the Bee Enclosure Module (BEM). The experiment found that honeybees can create honeycomb cells in a microgravity environment. A control colony was monitored on Earth for comparison. The study was part of the Shuttle Student Involvement Program (SSIP) sponsored by Honeywell Inc. The experiment was proposed by Daniel Poskevich, a high school student in Waverly, Tennessee.
.png "1986 Grain Products : Space Exploration #13 - Honeybee Experiment on Space Shuttle")
| Space Exploration | |
|---|---|
| 1 | Voyager I |
| 2 | Models of Venera 15 and 16 |
| 3 | Jupiter |
| 4 | The Space Shuttle Columbia |
| 5 | Valentina Tereshkova |
| 6 | Saturn V |
| 7 | Illustration of Lunar Landing Module |
| 8 | Laika |
| 9 | V.A.B. |
| 10 | Model of Lunokhod 1 |
| 11 | Model of the First Vostok |
| 12 | Skylab Reflections |
| 13 | Honeybee Experiment on Space Shuttle |
| 14 | U.S.S.R. Flight Control Centre |
| 15 | Apollo 11 |
| 16 | Search and Rescue |
| 17 | Skylab |
| 18 | Space Port Baikonur |
| 19 | Yuri Gagarin |
| 20 | Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Centre |