Luke's Lightsaber Going to Orbit

[ZWarrior]

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.

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

[JollyRoger]

Not to sound grin and sick but if that shuttle goes bad and the prop gets lost some how. I will laugh so hard. I would want anyone to get hurt but I'm telling ya, It'd be funny.