Star Wars: A New Hope contains no CGI
That's all miniatures. IIRC the first CGI space epic was The Last Starfighter, and the effects company that did that one bought their own $8 million Cray-1 supercomputer to render it. (The $8 million doesn't include the power substation you need to run one. Those things were a bit heavy on their electrical requirements.)
And yes, I know Top Gun: Maverick is almost all practical effects using (for the most part) real Navy aircraft flown by real Naval aviators. (The F-14 sequence is CGI because there ain't no more F-14s - except for the handful of permanently-disabled museum pieces, every F-14 the US had was shredded to keep the Iranians from buying F-14 parts.) That doesn't change the fact that the mission profile for blowing up the uranium enrichment facility and the mission profile for blowing up the Death Star were a lot alike.
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