10 Secrets Behind Alien's Nostromo Ship You Didn't Know
1. It Was Produced By Lockheed Martin & Rolls Royce
Amusingly, despite being set 100 years into the future in a world with little in the way of recognisable iconography, the Nostromo's design blueprints confirm that it was designed by real-life American aerospace company Lockheed Martin - or, as they were known in 1979, the Lockheed Corporation.
The Nostromo's manufacturing designation is a "Lockheed CM 88B Bison," though when the ship was refitted to become a cargo hauler, its original Saturn J-3000 engines were replaced with two decidedly more powerful N66 Cyclone Thrust engines from one of the world's biggest aerospace manufacturers - Rolls Royce.
As much as the world of the Alien franchise seems so far divorced from our own, it's amusing - or disturbing, some might say - that the same old conglomerates are still flourishing a century from now.