When you ’re traveling to space , everything that give way with you — from personal burden to historical items — has to be small and lightweight . Over the couple of human spaceflight , some pretty eldritch things have made the trip . Here are a few of them .
1. Silver Snoopy Pins
In 1968 , NASA start out an initiative to award blue-ribbon employee with asilver Snoopy lapel pinas part of their Manned Flight Awareness programme . While the first awarded tholepin were not wing , each subsequent pin tumbler has been flown on a man commission . Since 1968 , over 12,000 pins have been awarded .
2. Marine Mammal Poster
For each mission , NASA cosmonaut are allow to bring personal detail that together with weigh less than two pounds and can match in a box the size of a book . One of these personal target wasa poster of nautical mammals .
3. Jamestown Colony Cargo Tag
In 2007 , astronauts above the space shuttleAtlantisbrought acargo ticket from Jamestown , America ’s first permanent colony , which was established in 1607 . The piece was returned to the Jamestown museum after its trip to space .
4. Dirt From Pitcher’s Mound at Yankee Stadium
When astronaut — and avid Yankees fan — Garret Reisman flew on table the distance bird Endeavour in 2008 , he broughta vial of dirtfrom the hurler ’s mound at Yankee Stadium with him . On April 16 , 2008 , Reisman fox the first pitching of a Yankees plot from the International Space Station .
5. NASCAR Starter Flags
Also in 2008 , astronauts broughtthree NASCAR starter flagswith them on mission . The unripened dispatcher flags were packed to celebrate NASA ’s 50th anniversary , as well as the fiftieth year of NASCAR ’s Daytona 500 slipstream . Upon return to the earth , the flag were given as endowment : One went to the success of the 2008 Daytona 500 , one for public presentation at the Florida racecourse , and one for NASA to keep .
6. Piece of the Wright Flyer
When the Wright crony first fly their rudimentary aeroplane in 1903 , the aircraft only came a few foot off of the primer coat . In 1969 , 66 eld after the Wright Flyer ’s maiden ocean trip , NASA broughta piece from the aircrafton its very first trip-up to the moon as a way to honor the famous span .
7. Luke Skywalker’s Lightsaber
In 2007 , thelightsaber propbelonging toStar war ’ Luke Skywalker ( Mark Hamill ) was taken on a mission to the International Space Station . Star Warsfans even escorted the prop to an airdrome in California to send it to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida . The lightsaber pass two weeks in orbit , and was later return to George Lucas ’ film company .
8. Moon Tree Seeds
During the Apollo 14 NASA mission to the moon in 1971 , cosmonaut packedhundreds of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree seedsin their personal outfit . Upon comeback to the ground , the source were germinated by the Forest Service and planted throughout the U.S. in 1976 to celebrate the state ’s bicentenary .
9. Lego
How ’s this for meta ? In 2012 , Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa brought Lego bricks with him on his trip to the ISS — which he then used tobuild a replica of the ISS .
