The space shuttle fleet is about to retire and I wanted to celebrate / commemorate the fantastic achievement that the space shuttle represents.

When I first thought about producing a design featuring the Space Shuttle I wanted to show that there may be many fictional space vehicles around, but the shuttle is a human made vehicle in reality that fires the imagination.

I then had the idea of creating a pack / suit of cards design featuring other space ships, with the Shuttle being the ace.

Instead of simply using the normal card names, and to geek it up a little more, I decided to use the Stargate symbols on the cards, which I chose at random except on the shuttle card, which of course has the symbol for earth.

Click on the image to the left for a much larger version. (obviously the final version does not have the zort70 watermark)

The eagle eyed among you will probably be now saying 11 ? but there are 12 spaceships surrounding the shuttle. Yes you are right, two of the spaceships are actually related.

When I was creating the design, I wanted to represent as many different sci fi / fantasy franchises and spaceship types as possible. However one spaceship that features, and is a type that I really wanted to feature, is linked to one of the others and although technically not exactly the same TV show is represented the link is there.

Competition

So how many can you name ? and what is the link ? I will hold a random draw of all the people that email the names of all 12 fictional space ships, the name of the TV show, film or book the spaceship is featured in and the link between the two I mentioned above. The winner will win a t-shirt of their choice from my Cafepress store - Send entries to spaceship (at) zort.co.uk Entries accepted from 01/06/2011 to 14/06/2011

Qwertee

Finally I have created a special edition of the design to upload to Qwertee so that people can vote on it to be produced, I'm not even sure if it would be possible for Qwertee to print it, but I wanted to upload it anyway.
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