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Space Shuttle Endeavour's On-Board Souvenir Stash

Posted by michael on from the got-junk dept.

Robert Pearlman writes: "Seven astronauts, four payloads, and over 11,000 souvenirs are on their way to the International Space Station, among them a U.S. flag recovered from the World Trade Center, a cylinder record which belonged to inventor Thomas Edison, and golf course markers from Scotland and Ireland. Read the entire manifest here."

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  1. stupid question by Ledge · · Score: 2, Funny

    Item 7a.

    1. 5 Each Small Meatball Lapel Pins

    What the hell is a small meatball lapel pin??

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    If it ain't a Model M, it's a piece of crap.
  2. Wow...flags... by tregoweth · · Score: 2, Funny

    Under the "Flags for Heroes and Families" program, 6,000 small U.S. flags are also on-board, to be distributed to the victims' families and emergency response teams.

    "We're so sorry about the loss of your loved one...but here's a flag that's been in space! Well, in a hermetically sealed package in a storage compartment in a spacecraft in space, but still...oooh!"

    1. Re:Wow...flags... by Suidae · · Score: 3, Funny

      easy, two words: Orbital Fireworks. Definately. Throw big balls of chemically doped junk into the atmosphere to make colorful artifical meteors. Bright, long lasting ones.

  3. If I was on the space station... by itwerx · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...I'd be pissed!
    We don' need no steenkin' "meatball lapel pins". We haven't seen a woman in six months! Where's the pr0n?!?

  4. Here it is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    97. 1 Each Sorority Photograph Chi Omega Sorority, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

  5. Re:6,000 miniature flags by freeweed · · Score: 3, Funny
    Actually, it reminds me of the simpsons episode:


    Alien: Abortions for everyone
    Crowd: BOOOOOOOOOO!!!

    Alien: OK, Abortions for no one
    Crowd: BOOOOOOOOOO!!!

    Alien: OK, Abortions for some, miniature american flags for all
    Crowd: YAAAAAAYYYY!!!

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