I enjoy fictional universes where spacecraft are in service for hundreds of years, because hey they're big and expensive and why build a new one when you can just maintain an old one.

I've flown an airplane (Cessna 150) that was almost 50 years old. Aircraft have rigorous enough maintenance schedules that they can last basically forever. If you want you can slap in some more modern electronics but even that's not really required.

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