Everyone is familiar with the mixture of basketball and entertainment that the Harlem Globetrotters provide. They have been around for 83 years, providing laughter and some impressive hardcourt skills that make them a show worth watching. Though outer space seems to be question mark, the Harlem Globetrotters are bringing their act to space, perhaps to prove that they have really been around!

The Globetrotters will become the first basketball team to send a ball to the Hubble Space Telescope when they launch an authentic Spalding Harlem Globetrotters ball from Kennedy Space Center in Florida today on board the space shuttle Atlantis – part of NASA’s fifth and final shuttle mission to the Hubble.

The team’s signature red, white and blue ball, a Globetrotters’ staple since 1985, will accompany the seven-member Atlantis crew on their 11-day mission to service the 19-year-old observatory, which orbits 350 miles above Earth.

“It is only fitting that the team that has seen more of the world than any other in history would have a presence beyond the stratosphere,” stated Globetrotters CEO Kurt Schneider. “This Globetrotters basketball will serve as an intergalactic symbol of accomplishment.”

(Source) Press

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