A Comparison Of NASA And Star Wars

“SPHERES’’ was initially made to test spacecraft rendezvous points, spacecraft maneuvering, and space dock exercises, but now can be operated by smart phones to do anything NASA wants it to do for them ("NASA and Star Wars”). “SPHERES” was also used on “May the Fourth Be with You” to show people what it looks like and what it is capable of doing currently ("NASA and Star Wars”).

NASA was even able to discover a moon that looks like the “Death Star” ("NASA and Star Wars”). This moon is called Mimas; one of Saturn’s and has now become known as The “Death Star” Moon, as a result of its eighty mile wide crater creating the likeness of an Imperial combat site ("NASA and Star Wars”). According to NASA, it appears that some of the make believe

Marvel creator Stan Lee shockingly turned down the idea at first in 1975, but two years later, he was convinced by the then editor Roy Thomas as well as fellow fans to make the franchise into a Marvel comic series (“McMillan”). Marvel’s Star Wars comic series initially had 107 issues along with three specials and spinoff series (“McMillan”). The spinoffs were The Star Wars: Ewoks and Droids series, both of them were intended for younger readers (“McMillan”). The main series lasted from 1977- 1986 (“McMillan”). According to Marvel’s former Chief Editor Jim Shooter, the Star Wars comics’ sales saved Marvel financially in 1977 and 1978 (“McMillan”). Marvel's Star Wars comics was one of the industry's bestselling titles from 1979 – 1980 (“McMillan”). There was only one problem for Marvel. In 1986, things started to change because the last film had been released three years earlier than scheduled and since at the moment there were no plans for further installments, the franchise’s sale numbers decreased (“McMillan”). Facing this dilemma Marvel canceled the Star Wars series along with the Droids and Ewoks ending in 1987 (“McMillan”). In 1991 Dark Horse, an independent comic book company started making the new Star Wars comics because at the time the company was getting a lot of attention based off of the movie based comics they were making (“McMillan”). Dark Horse continued to make the comic series until January 2014 when the company lost the license of the series to Marvel