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Space travel was huge topic in 1968. Apollo 8 was in orbit around the moon; "2001: A Space Odyssey" was released and featured an imagined Pan American operated spacecraft; and Juan Trippe, #PanAm's founder, announced the airline's "First Moon Flights" Club. For the next four years, over 90,000 people signed up for a space trip and received these First Moon Flights Club cards. On the card's back, it declared, "Pan Am makes the going great: first in Latin America, first on the Atlantic, first on the Pacific, first round the world." A letter that came with the card stated: "Fares are not fully resolved, and may be out of this world.” #internationalmuseumday Pan American World Airways, First Moon Flights Club card c. 1970 SFO Museum Collection Gift of Constance Ogilvie 2002.073.034 This image was posted on May 18, 2016.