The opening flight of the fleeing ship chased by the Star Destroyer in the original Star Wars completely changed the way a movie could transport you to another world.

A new game for iPhone lets users take the controls of the Millennium Falcon and battle enemy spaceships using the phone's built-in camera to create the backdrop.

While Star Wars was in production, the television show "Space: 1999" developed a vessel design very similar to the early Falcon.