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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 06-04-2009 08:50 PM Harlem Globetrotters release <BLOCKQUOTE>[b]Trotters Ball Returns From Outer Space[/b] [i]Globetrotters journey where no other basketball team has gone before, with team basketball aboard NASA's fifth and final mission to Hubble Space Telescope[/i] The world-renowned Harlem Globetrotters, who have already left their indelible mark on 120 countries and six continents during their 83 years of touring, have expanded their historic travels to outer space. The Globetrotters became the first basketball team to send a ball to the Hubble Space Telescope when they launched an authentic Spalding Harlem Globetrotters ball on board the space shuttle Atlantis on May 11 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, as part of NASA's fifth and final shuttle mission to the Hubble. The shuttle touched down Monday, May 25 at an alternate landing spot in Calfornia after its return from a successful mission to repair and upgrade the Hubble was delayed for three days due to poor weather. After 12 days, 21 hours and 37 minutes in flight, the shuttle - with its crew of seven astronauts and the Globetrotter ball - landed at an air base 100 miles north-east of Los Angeles. Nasa had earlier cancelled landing efforts at Cape Canaveral in Florida, where weather conditions remained threatening after earlier storms. The team's signature red, white and blue ball, a Globetrotters' staple since 1985, accompanied the Atlantis crew on their mission to service the 19-year-old observatory, which orbits 350 miles above the Earth. "It is only fitting that the team that has seen more of the world than any other in history would have a presence beyond the stratosphere," stated Globetrotters CEO Kurt Schneider. "This Globetrotter basketball will serve as an intergalactic symbol of accomplishment." NASA has taken pieces of historical and pop culture significance on an array of voyages in their 50-plus-year history. The Wright Flyer got only a few feet off the ground during its maiden flight in 1903, but wood and fabric from the Flyer was carried to the moon 66 years later by Apollo 11. A lightsaber prop used by Mark Hamill in his role as Luke Skywalker in "Return of the Jedi" was taken on Discovery's trip to the International Space Station in October 2007. And, of course, there are the two golf balls that astronaut Alan Shepard carried to the moon on Apollo 14 in 1971 and hit with a makeshift club. Soon the Globetrotter basketball will be placed in the team's exhibit at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, where the Globetrotters are one of only six teams ever to be inducted.</BLOCKQUOTE>
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