In what instantly becomes one of the series» best aerial action sequences, Rey, Finn and BB - 8 stumble upon a «garbage»
spacecraft in a junkyard and use it to take out pursuing TIE fighters.
Since the dawn of the space age
in the late 1950s, low Earth orbit has become a
junkyard, with about 110,000 hunks of old
spacecraft one half inch or larger hurtling at speeds as high as 30,000 miles per hour.