By Louis Armstrong

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Does the Crew Get to Bring Any Personal Belongings to Space?

Just a few things.King told ELLE she’s bringing some photos while Sánchez shared she’s carrying a stuffed animal of the character Flynn from her children’s book The Fly Who Flew to Space.As for Bowe, she’s packing a historic object.”Nancy Conrad, who is the wife of Pete Conrad, the third man to walk on the moon, is a mentor and inspiration to me,” she noted to the magazine. “She said, ‘Your journey parallels Pete’s in so many ways, and so I want you to carry this flag.’ And thanks to the Museum of Flight in Seattle, I actually have the Apollo 12 flag, and that’s going to fly with me.”Bowe added she’s also bringing plant samples from Winston-Salem State University’s Astrobotany Lab as well as conch chowder that’s been dehydrated for the mission as a nod to The Bahamas.Nguyen is packing personal items as well.”My mother’s shells from the island she’s a refugee from,” she told ELLE, “and then the other thing is a promise that I made to myself [after my assault]. After I left the hospital, I wrote down, ‘Never ever give up,’ and I taped it to my laptop. I looked at it every day when I was graduating and when I was fighting for my rights—and I will be looking at it for the flight.”According to her Instagram, Nguyen is also bringing the pen former president Barack Obama used to sign the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Act, the Nguyen dynasty coin and Freetown cotton tree seeds.