The lightsaber wielded by Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars movie will be launched into space aboard the shuttle Discovery later this year.
NASA is carrying the lightsaber into space to help celebrate this year’s 30th anniversary of Star Wars. The shuttle’s launch, which will carry seven astronauts to the International Space Station, is scheduled for Oct. 23.
ooohkay 😉
thats a little weird 😛
Sweet
Star wars rules
Cool but kind of odd.
Please don’t tell me that they’re releasing it into space… That would be STUPID.
Weird idea
Thats sweet
I agree with starwarsfreak x infinitve!
I love Star Wars it’s like, my favorite movie of all time! I also want to be a NASA scientist (hence the nickname), so that’s extra cool!
Will they send Darth Vaders lightsaber next year?
as long as we don’t have another shuttle accident it will be…….AWSOME!
I loved this blog. Its so awesome that thier taking a lightsaber into space:-)
so the lightsabre is still a model right?
So?
So what? It’s just a toy. Thier coming back, so it’s not like aliens will c it. What are the astronauts going to do? Hit each other in the head? (sarcasim)
Weird idea but a AWESOME one. Star Wars rocks!!!!!!!! :->
What next? Bring a dog house and a typewriter?
star wars is awesome 🙂
awesome. is george lucas paying for this to happen? 🙂
cool, but what if somthing bad happens to the space ship and the lightsaber was destroyed?
COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!