The flight helps celebrate the 30th anniversary of the release of the original Star Wars trilogy. Image left: The lightsaber prop that was used by Luke Skywalker in Return of the Jedi was packed in foam and will spend two weeks in orbit.
The astronaut returned the replica to a museum after the flight for its collection. The bear was a replica of one owned by a Holocaust survivor. Most of the objects find esteemed homes when they return, such as a stuffed teddy bear that STS-116 Commander Mark Polansky took into orbit. Now a plastic handle whose sole role was to make the fictional world of Star Wars look realistic is ready to take a real trip to the stars aboard space shuttle Discovery for mission STS-120.įrom pieces of history to articles of pop culture, the assortment of items astronauts have taken with them into space is as varied as the world the artifacts represent. The lightsaber is being taken into space aboard the real-life spacecraft Discovery during mission STS-120. Image right: Astronaut Jim Reilly helped welcome R2-D2 and Luke Skywalker's lightsaber from Star Wars to the Kennedy Space Center. The Wright Flyer got only a few feet off the ground during its maiden flight in 1903, but traveled to the moon 66 years later.Ī lead cargo tag that took months to cross the Atlantic Ocean from England to the nascent colony at Jamestown recently made the same crossing in minutes.
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