NASA shuttle to launch Luke's lightsaber

Anach · Unread post by **Anach** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 7:30 pm

August 27, 2007 â€” When the space shuttle Discovery launches the STS-120 crew in October, the force will be with them.

Stowed on-board the orbiter, in addition to a new module for the international space station, will be the original prop lightsaber used by actor Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in the 1977 film "Star Wars". The laser-like Jedi weapon is being flown to the orbiting outpost and back in honor of the 30th anniversary of director George Lucas' franchise

http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-082707a.html

gelfling · Unread post by **gelfling** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 8:55 pm

That's rather fab

Lightsky Axov · Unread post by **Lightsky Axov** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 12:37 pm

I found this MOST interesting, I can't wait to find out what happens..

It's a pleasure for nasa to allow this..

Dekklen · Unread post by **Dekklen** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 8:50 am

Yeah...one of the astronauts will accidentally turn it on and singlehandedly take out the entire international space station by swinging it into a fuel line!

What, you didn't know? The one Mark Hamill used was REAL! Oops, cya later space station.