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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Steven Morris

Millennium Falcon exhibition opens in Welsh town where ship was built

The Millennium Falcon under construction at Pembroke Dock
The Millennium Falcon under construction at Pembroke Dock in the 1970s, in a hangar previously used to build flying boats. Photograph: Pembroke Dock Heritage Trust

It is perhaps the most recognisable and beloved spaceship in movie history – a battered old warrior of a vessel that got Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and the rest of the Star Wars crew out of – and into – a string of sci-fi scrapes.

What is not so well known is that the Millennium Falcon, or at least a full-size model of it, was the last major craft to be built at a dockyard in south-west Wales.

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