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In 2013 he and his wife made headlines when they restored and then donated the “Star Trek” Galileo shuttlecraft prop to NASA’s Johnson Space Center.

“Commercial aviation will find The Boeing Co. and one or two others heavily subsidized by governmental funds to build planes that will closely resemble spacecraft, such as the space shuttlecraft now on the designing boards,” Satterfield wrote.

It knows the girl stands ready, eyes squinting as the Lady’s shuttlecraft lands amid what was once the town square.

“This is the first time that an airplane without moving parts has flown,” said MIT aerospace engineer Steven Barrett, who drew inspiration from fictional shuttlecraft from “Star Trek.”

“In Star Trek you have shuttlecraft gliding silently past,” he says.