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The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), derisively nicknamed the Star Wars program, was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic nuclear missiles. The program was announced in 1983, by President Ronald Reagan. [1]
According to Henry F. Cooper, who was the Director of the Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars") under President Reagan, spaceplane projects consumed $4 billion of funding in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s (excluding the Space Shuttle). This does not include the 1950 and 1960s budgets for the Dynasoar, ISINGLASS, Rheinberry, and any 21st ...
According to Star Wars: The Force Awakens: The Visual Dictionary (2015), and the trilogy novel series Star Wars: Aftermath by Chuck Wendig, after the Galactic Empire was defeated at Battle of Endor in 4 ABY in Return of the Jedi, thousands of worlds rose up to join the Rebel Alliance, and destroy the disorganized Empire, which had fallen victim to warlordism.
[2] [10] [5] The name "Kessel Run" came from a line in the 1977 science fiction film Star Wars, spoken by smuggler Han Solo, bragging about the speed of his ship, the Millennium Falcon. [2] It represented the project's intent to "smuggle" new software development capability into the Air Force and use it to set new software development speed ...
The Star Wars Enigma: Behind the Scenes of the Cold War Race for Missile Defense. Potomac Books. ISBN 9781574889819. Heller, Arnie (January–February 1999). "Leading the Best and the Brightest". Science and Technology Review. Archived from the original on 2017-05-02; Herken, Gregg (October 1987). "The earthly origins of Star Wars".
The plan was ridiculed by some as unrealistic and expensive, and Dr. Carol Rosin nicknamed the policy "Star Wars", after the popular science-fiction movie franchise. [ citation needed ] Astronomer Carl Sagan pointed out that in order to defeat SDI, the Soviet Union had only to build more missiles, allowing them to overcome the defence by sheer ...
Sci-fi series The Lazarus Project predicted the Russian invasion of Ukraine, actor Anjli Mohindra has revealed. Discussing the insight of writer Joe Barton, who wrote the drama several years ago ...
Military robots in the Star Wars universe are built on the same principles as modern military robotics. While most military robots in the modern world are designed in various shapes, depending on their purpose, the military robots of the Star Wars universe are primarily humanoid, and built to imitate live, organic soldiers, mainly human ones.