I'm doing a paper and I need to know how space exploration influenced movies around the Apollo era. What technological advances (such as the satellites that appear in the movies) were used in Star Wars?
I guess there were a few parabolic antennas in there. Luke had a nice set of range finding binoculars. Not sure if NASA came up with those, but you can certainly get them at any sports store.
I have an interesting comment (as usual). Most of the technology in Star Wars is looking pretty dated nowadays. Either that or it is totally absurd in that we now know that it is either totally impossible or it just would not happen.
Very little, if any. Remember that this is Hollywood and that means any resemblance to accuracy for science and engineering is an afterthought or relegated to the waste basket when the accountants arrive with their knives and clipboards. To get a more realistic view of space from films you would have to go for 20001 - A Space Odyssey, not much else really. People who quote Star Trek for some of the advances of our own civilization are usually wishful thinkers, a TV series (no matter how well made - or badly) does not generate a major research push on any communications device, it was already happening it just happened to take a decade longer than expected - we had to wait a while for miniaturization and the right materials.
