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At least as long as there are still wires in spacecraft.
There'll probably be exposed mechanics anyway. And I seriously doubt wires and pipes will disappear from engineering anytime soon...
Yes, but there are bound to be alloys and properties that are unique to non-terrestrial processes. micro-g crystals and readily available hard vacuum are the most often described.
Sure.
micro-g production processes I can understand, but not hard vacuum. We can make vacuum on Earth. And even if making such a hard vacuum is an expensive process, it'll be far less expensive then launching to and maintaining an orbital factory.
And even then, it limits spaceflight industry to LEO.