tom271 opened this issue on Jun 05, 2012 ยท 31 posts
orbital posted Wed, 06 June 2012 at 2:17 PM
It's not the same ship, because in Alien they land on LV426 and in Prometheus they land on LV 233, although one orbits the other. I'll not go into detail for fear of spoilers, but if you want to know about the film then this is a good read and explains a lot.
Spoiler alert!