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Bending metal — the actual process of making rovers and spaceships and telescopes — drives economic activity.

On his coffee table sits a gleaming metallic hood ornament, a winged pointed figure that looks like a mock spaceship that Gurr hoped would grace a new Lincoln.

“What’s happened to the movies, which were filled with ambiguity and intimate strangeness a few short years ago, but now are crammed with spaceships and sharks?”

The live show featured a costumed Martindale, who would interview half a dozen kids in a cheaply built spaceship set, and segue to five- or six-minutes of old Flash Gordon movie serials.

Nasa plans to bring them back to Earth in late March aboard a spaceship built by SpaceX, a rival company of Boeing.