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Star Wars Humor On NASA's STS-133 Mission

Posted By Eric on March 2, 2011

In case you weren't aware, the current space shuttle mission, STS-133, brought an experimental robot to the International Space Station. The unit is called Robonaut and the latest version, currently on the ISS, is nicknamed R2. Check out this email I received from friend of TFN and NASA flight controller Holly Griffith:

Every day during a mission, we uplink an Execute Package to the crew. These have any special notes or changes to procedures and a timeline in it.

The group who makes the Execute Pack always puts some kind of humor on the first page about the current mission.

Today's joke, since they're unpacking Robonaut, was this. I thought you'd appreciate it.

Indeed I do, and I hope the rest of you enjoy it as well! For a bonus Star Wars reference in the Execute Pack, look at the NASA acronym in the text above the image: Joint Execute package Development and Integration or JEDI!

Big thanks to Holly for sending this to me!

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