Astronaut (1961)

Card game from the early 1960s based on the Moon Race with realistic paintings including Sputnik, Telstar, Mercury and Vostok capsules and rather more fanciful ones of a moon mission. Contents 4 sets of 7 cards representing stages of the mission 4 substitute Stage cards 2 Reserve Astronaut cards 2 Illness cards 3 Delay cards 5 "General Interest" cards (weaker Delay cards) rules Players race to lay down the seven stage cards in order, using substitute and reserve cards if necessary, and hindered by illness cards picked up and delay cards passed by the player on the right. Game end comes when a player reaches the moon (stage 7), and victory points come from the number of genuine stage cards played.