Comment on The SR-71 Blackbird Astro-Nav System worked by tracking the stars
Orbituary@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Am I missing something here? The Blackbird came out in 66, so I Star Wars in 77…are they saying it influenced the latter, or, did the star tracking come out after the movie?
SpaceCrumbs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
‘That was affectionately dubbed “R2-D2” after the Star Wars movie came out in 1977’
I read it as once the film was released the star tracking was then nicknamed R2.