Piece of The Mary Rose onboard Space Shuttle Endeavour

I kept putting off posting this story until the shuttle actually launched and after several delays it finally has!

I first heard about the possibility of a piece of The Mary Rose flying on the space shuttle when the crew of a different shuttle flight visited the Historic Portsmouth Dockyard last summer. They took the artifact with the hope that it would be flown on a future flight, which is indeed what happened. Here are some of the article links I collected about it, back when Endeavour was originally supposed to launch back in April:

From nasa.gov: Robonaut Hand, Ship Bearing Head to Space

From The Telegraph: Mary Rose artefact to be sent into space on Endeavour

From The BBC: Mary Rose artefact on space shuttle Endeavour