12:00 AM, 27-AUGUST-07<\/em><\/p>\nLuke’s Lightsaber Heads Into Space<\/em><\/p>\nThe original prop of Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber from the first Star Wars movie will be sent into space aboard the space shuttle Discovery in October to commemorate the film franchise’s 30th anniversary, according to a joint announcement from Lucasfilm, the Space Center Houston and Southwest Airlines on Aug. 27.<\/em><\/p>\nThe prop will be flown to Houston on Aug. 28 from its current home at Lucasfilm headquarters in Northern California.<\/em><\/p>\nAn actor dressed as Chewbacca will hand the lightsaber over to representatives from NASA’s Space Center Houston during a ceremony at Oakland International Airport.<\/em><\/p>\nUpon landing in Houston, the lightsaber will be escorted by costumed stormtroopers, alongside R2-D2 and other Star Wars characters, to a caravan of Hummers with a police escort. It will be transported for safekeeping to NASA’s Space Center Houston, where it will be secured inside the vault once used to store samples from the moon until it is ready for its trip into space.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nJason De Bord<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Per SciFi.com, it looks like one of the original lightsabers from A New Hope will be going on an interesting journey. Should be interesting to see the news coverage of this event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news-events","7":"entry"},"yoast_head":"\n
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