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Forum: Hardware & Flown Items
Topic: STS-125: Official Flight Kit (OFK)

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Message to Edit: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	Originally posted by Robert Pearlman on 08-18-2008 01:13 AM New York Daily News: [URL=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/08/17/2008-08-17_yankees_sent_dirt_into_space__now_shea_s-1.html]Yankees sent dirt into space - now, Shea Stadium plate headed for orbit[/URL] <CENTER><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/sts125_ofksheaplate01.jpg" WIDTH="450" HEIGHT="300"> Astronaut Mike Massimino (right) holds up the home plate used at Shea Stadium for the 2007 season during neutral buoyancy spacewalk training with Mike Good.</CENTER> <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]Months after a Bomber-loving astronaut carried some dirt from Yankee Stadium into orbit, a Mets fan has upped the ante and will take a home plate from Shea into space this October. The home plate from the 2007 season was given by the Mets to Mike Massimino to fuel his rivalry with fellow astronaut and Yankees fan Garrett Reisman of Morristown, N.J. Reisman [URL=http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-031808a.html#takemeout]carried dirt[/URL] from the Yankee Stadium pitcher's mound on the shuttle Endeavour mission in March. "We can do better than that, pal," said Massimino, 46, of Franklin Square, L.I. "We're flying a home plate from Shea."[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE>
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