Mate, you can just put your finger over the solar panel until it slowly gets strangled

There is also the possibility of information transfer so the people on board the ship (or an automaton) could enhance the vessel and make it faster mid flight

Last week, Jack quit the band …

Not really… https://littlevillagemag.com/your-village-why-theres-a-statue-of-a-nude-woman-facing-the-iowa-state-capitol/

A woman designed the monument and the original design but the was embellished by a different sculptor after she had died