Lost in Space Zachary Smith – an agent for an unnamed foreign government – who slips aboard the spaceship and reprograms the robot to destroy the ship and crew. However, Smith is trapped aboard, and his excess weight alters the craft's flight path and places it directly in the path of a massive meteor storm. Smith manages to save himself by prematurely reviving the crew from suspended animation. The ship survives, but the damage caused by Smith's earlier sabotage of the robot leaves the crew lost in space. The "Jupiter 2" crash-lands on an alien world, later identified by Will as Priplanus, where
Lost in Space (comics) Penelope", Brian Woodford. The artist was John Burns. Lost in Space (comics) Lost in Space was a comic book published by Innovation Comics, based upon the television series "Lost in Space". It utilized the settings and characters from the series, but was set years after the end of the series, and featured older characters coming to terms with being cut off from Earth for so many years. In the 1980s, Bill Mumy (who played Will Robinson on the series) had tried, and failed, to convince Irwin Allen to allow production of a "Lost in Space" film for theatres or TV.