posted 02-12-2015 04:06 PM               

Future space station crew dons Jedi robes for Star Wars-inspired poster

That's no Star Wars poster. It's a space station... crew.

NASA on Thursday (Feb. 12) revealed the official poster for the International Space Station Expedition 45 crew and let's just say, the Force is strong with them.

The six astronauts and cosmonauts, who will begin their residency on the orbital outpost beginning this September, traded their blue NASA flight suits for brown Jedi robes at the photo shoot.

posted 02-13-2015 11:11 AM               

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Originally posted by onesmallstep:
Now all you need is a Sith Lord on it to mix things up...

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posted 02-23-2015 01:14 PM               

Now, in regards to the poster. You're holding a red lightsaber. Correct?

That's right, yeah.

You're aware that that's a Sith lightsaber? Is there something you want to tell us?

[Laughs] That's really funny. I specifically asked our graphic artist to give me a red lightsaber, and then I recommended that he give Scott Kelly a purple one, because Scott has that steely-eyed, wise Mace Windu thing going on. Kimiya [Yui], my Japanese crew mate, is trained in Kendo. So, when we were doing the photo shoot, I asked him to strike a Kendo pose. I think the silver lightsaber works in a samurai, katana kind of way. Then Sean filled in the rest of the lightsaber to make it visually interesting.

I loved the comments [on the poster], and your comment, as well. "You know your holding a Sith saber, right?" And, of course, I knew that was the case.

Well, it just makes me worried for your fellow astronauts.

[Laughs] I don't know that the lightsaber color reveals the soul of the barer. Darth Vader's my favorite character by far.