Nasa blasts Buzz Lightyear into space!

Marketing stunt or not, this is cool. Nasa has helped Disney celebrate the opening of its new Toy Story Mania ride at Disney World Florida by blasting a special figurine of Buzz Lightyear into space.

The action figure rode into the heavens onboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on Saturday, before finding a new home on the International Space Station.

Accompanying the Disney icon was the main cabin of Japan’s Kibo laboratory, due to be bolted onto the space station to become its largest single room. The size of a small bus, it’ll take three space walks to install, and has cost $1 billion.

You can see a trailer for Buzz’s extraordinary adventure below.

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