Trivia: Jimmy's dog is named Goddard. American physicist and inventor Robert Hutchings Goddard (1882-1945) developed the first liquid propelled rocket engine in 1926.
Trivia: When Jimmy shrinks himself to sneak out of the house you can see his parents are watching TV Land - A Nickelodeon program.
Trivia: If you have seen Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (which stars Steve Oderkerk, who wrote Jimmy Neutron) it ends with a giant monster's foot stepping beside the main character's. This foot is the same foot as the giant chicken monster in this movie.
Answer: Surely such an advanced spaceship would have some form of autopilot.