This then promptly turned into a naming contest among Musk's followers, with some great suggestions including "Heart of Gold," which is lifted from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and which Musk said was his "favorite fictional spaceship".
This then promptly turned into a naming contest among Musk's followers, with some great suggestions including "Heart of Gold," which is lifted from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and which Musk said was his "favorite fictional spaceship". Sorry, Serenity – at least Millennium Falcon got a shout-out for SpaceX's existing reusable rocket line.
"They are more credible because they didn't have any knowledge of airplanes or satellites," he said, adding that his favorite description of an alien spaceship was from an underwater UFO found in a Washington lake.
Pinball, 1973 contains somewhat more story to move it forward: the narrator's quest to play a favorite pinball machine one more time, the "three-flipper Spaceship" that once stood in J's bar.
Take him shopping with you to show him all the different kinds of underwear out there, and let him choose his favorite, whether the underwear has toy trains, puppies, or spaceships on it.
What's a gunfight at the Capitol when the White House has been incinerated by spaceships and the Chrysler Building is Hollywood's favorite punching bag?
Mr. Lebenfeld grabbed a remote control and brought to rambunctious life his favorite new toy: a radio-controlled vehicle that is half race car, half fantasy spaceship.
A particular favorite was Commander Keen, a game that features an eight-year-old boy who builds a spaceship from household objects and tours the galaxy as Earth's defender.
The next step for Osenga involves the warehouse behind his favorite burrito place in Nashville where the set designers, videographers and builders will construct the spaceship-slash recording studio-slash soundstage and begin to track the project.
And continue reading to see photos of the spaceship models, literal human models, and epic sets, as well as some thoughts from the director about his favorite sci-fi idols like Jodorowsky and the French comic, Métal Hurlant.
