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Monday, July 07, 2008
Astronaut and space shuttle Endeavour Pilot Col. Gregory Johnson — a Fairborn native — brought his Dorothy Lane Market's grocery bag with him aboard the flight, which left the earth's atmosphere on March 11.OAKWOOD — Some people think Dorothy Lane Market has out-of-this-world brownies — now their bags are too.
Dorothy Lane officials said astronaut and space shuttle Endeavour Pilot Col. Gregory Johnson — a Fairborn native — brought his Dorothy Lane Market's grocery bag with him aboard the flight, which left the earth's atmosphere on March 11.
The shuttle, astronauts and the grocery bag spent 12 days in space. The flight returned March 26.
Dorothy Lane figures its bag traveled 6.5 million miles.
That might be a new record for the program, called A Famous Name in a Famous Place, which encourages loyal DLM customers to send in photographs of themselves holding a Dorothy Lane Market bag in any internationally famous place they visit.
The bags usually visit Disneyworld, the Grand Canyon and Mount Rushmore, but they have also been to the North Pole, Mt. Everest and the Brazilian rain forest.
The program is so popular that the board where the photos are displayed is taken down each year to prepare for the next round of photos. Customers can earn a gift card for submitting their photos.
