Astronaut Mission Patch Looks Like One Giant Star Wars Advertisement

The International Space Station hovers a couple hundred miles above the Earth's surface, yet it appears it, or at least one of its patches, is not above commercial plugs. Officials have unveiled the new mission patch for the U.S. national laboratory aboard the ISS that will adorn the apparel of our astronauts. The patch, in the shape of the rebel spaceship Millennium Falcon, includes the silhouettes of the spherical spacecraft called the Death Star that the Galactic Empire and their evil dictator Darth Vader use to blow up entire planets full of innocent people; and three robots from the movie franchise, BB-8, K-2SO and Chopper, meant to symbolize technology. The bots were featured in the two most recently released Star Wars movies, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" and "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," chosen over the highly identifiable R2-D2 and C-3PO that people grew to love in the original three films from the late 1970s and early '80s. To cap things off, the bottom of the patch is emblazoned with "Star Wars" and "Lucasfilm."