Millennium Falcon exhibition opens in Welsh town where ship was built
by Steven Morris from World news | The Guardian on (#5ZEZV)
Star Wars craft was secretly put together in a hangar in Pembroke Dock amid flying saucer' rumours
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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