Various launch vehicle cards exist. On each card, information about the launch vehicle can be found. It also says to which planet the displayed launch vehicle will take the player and how many fuel cards will be needed to do so.
E.g.: with a Falcon Heavy it is not possible to go to Venus but to the Moon and Mars. A Falcon Heavy requires 3 fuel cards (displayed by the stars on the left).
Other launch vehicle cards include:
Ariane V: The heavy-lift champion, Ariane V, is the world reference for the ontime delivery of satellites, with more than 100 launches.
Saturn V: the most powerful rocket that had ever flown successfully. It was built by NASA to send people to the moon during the Apollo program. It is a powefull Heavy Lift Vehicle.
All the Fuel cards look the same. Depending on which launch vehicle the player is using, the more or less Fuel cards are needed.
The game includes several crew cards on which some information about astronauts can be found. Different astronauts will gain you different points. The points are displayed through the stars on the left side.
Other crew cards include:
Elon Musk: Founder, CEO and Chief Engineer at SpaceX. Currently, SpaceX has a $1.6 billion contract with NASA for resupply missions and eventually ferrying people to and from the International Space Station.
Jeff Bezos: Founder of Amazon and Blue Origin. In December 2017, New Shepard successfully flew and landed dummy passengers, amending and pushing its human space travel start date into late 2018.
Richard Branson: Founder of Virgin Galactic. In 1987 Branson broke the world record for being the first and only person to cross the Atlantic in the largest hot air balloon! On 11 July 2021, Branson travelled as a passenger onboard Virgin Galactic Unity 22 at the edge of space, a suborbital test flight.
Thomas Pesquet: Thomas was chosen by ESA for a six-month mission to the International Space Station starting in November 2016. Proven polyglot, Thomas is fluent in six languages: French, English, Russian (in the "Soyuz" spacecraft, all exchanges take place in this language), Spanish, Chinese and German.
Samantha Cristoforetti: Former Italian Airforce Pilot and Engineer. Samantha has been assigned a second mission to the International Space Station scheduled for 2022. She is currently in training for this mission, which is scheduled for 2022.
Jessica Meir: an American NASA astronaut, marine biologist, and physiologist. 17 April 2020, Meir, joined by Skripochka and Morgan, returned to Earth aboard Soyuz MS-15, wrapping up a 205-day spaceflight for Meir and Skripochka and returning Morgan from a 272-day flight.
Yuri Gagarin: Soviet pilot and Cosmonaut. April 12, 1961, Gagarin was launched into orbit by a Vostok rocket and became the first man in space. His informal words before launch were “Poyekhali!” (Translation: “Let’s go!”)
Neil Armstrong: American astronaut and Aeronautics Engineer. First person to walk on the Moon. During Apollo 11 landing on the Moon, When Armstrong noticed they were heading toward a landing area that seemed unsafe, he took manual control of the LM and attempted to find a safer area. This took longer than expected, and longer than most simulations had taken.
Valentina Tereshkova: An Engineer and former Cosmonaut. On 16 June 1963, She spent almost three days orbiting the Earth 48 times on the only woman with a Solo Space Mission till date. This achievement makes her the first and youngest woman to have flown in Space.
Information and facts about celestial bodies can be found on those card. To get to a specific celestial body, a certain type of launch vehicle is needed, as can be read in the section "How to play".
Other celestial body cards include:
Moon: The "Big-Splash," also known as the Theia impact occured when an object the size of mars collided with earth approximately 4.5 billion years ago. Although, not a planet, but a satellite, the orbit of the moon controls the tides of the earth's ocean.
Venus: One day on venus is longer than one earth year. Spinning clockwise, unlike the other planets, venus is hotter than mercury despite being farther away and is the brightest object in the sky after the moon.
There exist some different Wild cards which, when drawn, will make you:
Skipping a turn
Having your opponent lose a turn
Drawing an extra card
Shuffling your hand and drawing 4 new cards
A special Robot assistant, that will give you an additional 2 points
The reason can be stated on the card, like a weather delay, a technical issue, conflicts within your crew, etc.
Throughout the game each player has to answer question.
There are easier questions and more difficult questions, all related to space.
The solution is given on the bottom of the card.
Question cards include:
Name the closest galaxy to the milkey way.
How many rocky planets are there in the solar system ?
What is the largest planet of the solar system? (Saturn, Jupiter or Uranus )
What is the darkest object of the universe?
Who was first human to journey into space ?
aurora borealis is a result of a disturbances in the magnetosphere, what is its cause?
Name the spacecraft that served as a lunar lander of Apollo 11?
How old is the universe in years ?
What is the closest Star to Earth ?
Which NASA space flight was the last manned mission to the moon?
What is the longest continuous time a human has spent in space?
How many moons does Jupiter have ?
What is the coldest place in the universe? (Hint: It’s a nebula.)
What percent of the universe is dark matter? (Plus or minus 2%.)
When was SpaceX founded?
List three celstial bodies.
Name the first artificial earth satellite that was launched into orbit.
Who discovered the Big Bang theory?
What is the farthest spaceraft that was launched from earth?
What is the most abundent element in the universe?
Each player gets a board to lay before them.
The players have to fill this chart during the game. Once the chart is full, the player is ready to launch the chosen vehicle in order to get with the chosen crew to the chosen planet.
Depending on the crew cards and the planet card, the player will get stars.
When the player is ready to launch, the stars will be counted. For each 3 points, the player receives one piece of the 3D launch vehicle model.
Each player is going to assemble a 3D model of the launch vehicle that has been chosen.
One launch vehicle has 5 pieces. Through the stars gained during the game and by answering question cards correctly, the player receives pieces of the model: 3 points for one piece.