Amelia Earhart: Out of this world

Photo courtesy NASA

Photo courtesy NASA

Items that belonged to Amelia Earhart are out of this world — literally.

One of Earhart’s scarves was carried into space by astronaut Randy Bresnik aboard the shuttle Atlantis, which took off Nov. 16. Bresnik is the grandson of Earhart’s Bresnick copy 2personal photographer, Albert Bresnik, who was hired in 1932 to document her around-the-world flight. In one photo the elder Bresnik took of Earhart, she’s wearing the scarf over a V-neck sweater, as her hand rests on the horizontal stablizer of her Electra.

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