That is another reason why Fang is hanging around. Anything that can be used to get them out of the mess with the ship is worth some extra effort.

"You'd think they'd build things to last longer out in space and not be constantly making new versions," he says. "But who knows, maybe they churn out new models even faster in space than on our planets."

That song about a printer being obsolete after a week might not even be an exaggeration.