NASA To Send Luke's Lightsaber Into Space 290
Verunks writes "In honor of the 30th anniversary of Star Wars, NASA will launch Luke Skywalker's original Jedi lightsaber into space along with the crew of the space shuttle Discovery. The launch is slated for October."
Actually not Luke's original lightsaber (Score:1, Informative)
Re:NASA must have too much money (Score:5, Informative)
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The average cost per pound to send to Low Earth Orbit is $3632 - $4587. [1]
[1] Source: http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=301 [spaceref.com]
We seem to be... (Score:4, Informative)
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Serenity beat them to it (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Careful... (Score:3, Informative)
An irreplaceable (though probably not priceless) drawing by an Auschwitz victim was lost aboard Columbia (reference [wikipedia.org]).
Rich.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Spa
The criticism of the shuttle program is extensive and uncontroversial. No-one in the industry, not even NASA, thinks the shuttle is anything but a huge balls up from beginning to end. The most flattering description of the shuttle program you can get from a space systems engineer is "it was a nice design before congress got to it."
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