THE STAR WARS QUESTION AND ANSWER BOOK ABOUT SPACE Review

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(More customer reviews)For many, Star Wars inspires wonder about what could really be out there, beyond our terrestrial home. "The Question & Answer Book About Space" stands as one of the most unusual books in the Star Wars pantheon. Most licensed Star Wars books retell what's already in a film or expand the Star Wars story with a supplemental or background story. Falling under neither category, this title uses an interest in Star Wars to explore scientific questions about the universe. Thus it stands as one of the only non-fiction Star Wars books. C-3PO and R2-D2 come along as ambassadors for this question and answer session. The following are samples of some of the questions. Is there intelligent life in outer space? Is there life on Venus? How did the Viking robots get to Mars? Where does our solar system end? What is between the stars? Can we see a black hole? Author Dinah L. Moche offers brief and easy to understand responses that are grounded in good science. The book is packed with a combination of NASA photographs and David Kawami's illustrations of Threepio and Artoo. The droids often illustrate concepts and show them on places like Earth's moon and along side the Viking 1 Lander on Mars. At one point, a picture shows what a solar sail spacecraft could look like. It would be many years before George Lucas would eventually give Count Dooku such a ship. Most of the information is still relevant today. Naturally, there have been advancements in the field. For example, Jupiter is reported to have 14 moons, while we've currently found 63. Naturally, Pluto is still considered a planet. While we're currently looking at the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2010, it is discussed as a new space freighter. The most outdated information regards space colonization. "NASA pictures a space colony that humans could build in 22 years. Shaped like a wheel, it has room for 10,000 people inside. If we started this project right away, humans could have a colony in space soon after the year 2000!" Published in 1979, "The Star Wars Question & Answer Book About Space" is a vintage read and a rare find. Coming from the initial generation of George Lucas merchandise, it is doubly special when considering that it is one of the only non-fiction Star Wars books.

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