Top 10 Strange Objects Sent into Space

Lead Cargo Tag from Jamestown
Recovered from the bottom of a well by archaeologists researching the colony at Jamestown, Va., this lead tag reading "Yames Towne" was probably once attached to a shipping crate or trunk. NASA placed this artifact, along with two sets of coins commemorating Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, aboard the space shuttle Atlantis for a March 2007 mission.

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