LeParmentier's brief Star Wars appearance saw his character extol the virtues of the Empire's Death Star space station and pour scorn on Vader's "sad devotion to that ancient Jedi religion".
The second part of the plan is to postpone the death of the space station from 2016 to 2020.
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But while the radical measures remain on the shelf, the situation is unresolved, illustrating two enduring truths - death is unavoidable and space is disappearing.
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The German physicist drove most of the US space programme's achievements until his death in 1977, and made three popular space films for Disney TV between 1955 and 1957.
But after Korolev's death in 1966, the Soviet space effort lost focus.
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No scientist on Earth has yet established a proven way as how one might propel even a relatively small space craft in the scale of the Apollo command vehicle at near light speeds never mind a huge piece of space junk like a Death Star.
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Ever spend an afternoon blasting space rock with your wedge of death?
Although email has gone from after-school treat to a dull routine in the space of 20 years, no one is ready to ring its death knell just yet.
Men and women approach death in ways shaped by history, by culture, by conditions that vary over time and across space.
The agency would start regulating space vehicles to ensure crew and passenger safety only if the operation of those vehicles resulted in death, serious injury or a dangerous close call.
Regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, Kubrick directed groundbreaking films including 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Dr Strangelove and Eyes Wide Shut, his last film before his death in 1999.
This one-minute trailer is light on the fantasy, but we get a hint of it in the form of Alexander Siddig (known to many of us for his role as Dr. Bashir in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), whose character offers to teach Leonardo about what seems like the mystery of life and death.
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