Article 5ZEZV Millennium Falcon exhibition opens in Welsh town where ship was built

Millennium Falcon exhibition opens in Welsh town where ship was built

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Steven Morris
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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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