New York – Mezuzas created by Judaica designer Laura Cowan will soon be, literally, out of this world.
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Cowan has been making space-travel themed ritual objects since she moved to Israel from London several years ago. But that didn’t prepare her for the e-mail she received in January, from American Jewish astronaut Greg Chamitoff, about her rocket-inspired mezuzas.
“He said that two of his friends had bought them and asked him to take them into space,” Cowan said. “I couldn’t believe it.”
In May, Chamitoff will set off for the International Space Station, a research facility that orbits the earth, with two of Cowan’s mezuzas — one named for the Apollo, NASA’s 1960s moon-landing mission, and one inspired by the design of a space shuttle —among the small number of personal belongings he is allowed to bring. He will live on board the space station for six months. [forward]
TORAH LO BASHAMIM HE??
THIS MEZZUAZ IS OUT OF THIS WORLD
This is scary. Yidin dont have a good track record in space travel. it is a place inzir mentshin should not be.
I wonder if Mr. Spock will buy one of these?
The first Mezuzah taken into space can be viewed at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan.