Nike distributed Jordan poster sets to retailers in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Inside each shipping box of posters was a small card — a trade card — listing the poster title and catalog number so store employees could identify what was in the shipment. These cards were never sold to the public; some are marked ‘For Promotional Use Only.’ They were working documents, and when the posters were unboxed and shelved, the cards were discarded. The ones that survived did so by accident. This card, #848, references the ‘Orbit’ poster (Nike catalog 290848), a 22×36 inch release from 1990 pairing Michael Jordan with Spike Lee’s Mars Blackmon character. The image is one of the most striking in the series — Jordan stretched mid-leap above a mock-scientific diagram, with the tongue-in-cheek caption that he ‘has overcome the acceleration of gravity… producing a low altitude earth orbit,’ and a small Earth with figures standing on it below, signed off ‘Air Jordan from Nike.’ It sits in the celebrated Jordan/Lee run alongside ‘Is It The Shoes?’ (#837/#838) and ‘Earth/Mars.’ Because these were trade-only promotional pieces, discarded once the campaign ended, gem-mint survivors are rare: of twenty examples submitted to PSA across all grades, only four have reached PSA 10. DimeLabs owns one of those four gem mint copies.