This observance of the 35th anniversary of the 1969 release of David Bowie’s Space Oddity made me recall the Pan Am “First Moon Flights Club”. If you remember, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) put Pan Am’s name on the shuttle the protagonists ride to the moon. When the airline announced in late 1968, during a break in ABC-TV’s coverage of the Apollo 8 mission, that it would begin accepting reservations for the first commercial flight to the moon, it was deluged with requests and quickly established the club, which was essentially a waitiing list dignified by a wallet card. I was one of the charter members of the First Moon Flights Club and showed off my increasingly dog-eared membership card, with a number somewhere in the low 1000’s, to anyone who did not believe my boast that I was on the waiting list for a moonflight. I swore that I would do anything to raise the airfare by the time my name rose to the top of the list. By the time Pan Am stopped taking reservations in 1971, club membership stood at over 93,000 strong, and rival TWA had a similar arrangement. I don’t know what ever happened to my card, although I doubt the waiting list was transferred anywhere else when Pan Am went out of business in 1991. And although some opine that space activities will never be profitable until tourism services begin, I don’t suppose I am going to break my terrestrial bonds in this lifetime.