rocket ships
Vessels leaving Earth
Rocket ships are spacecraft propelled by rocket engines, capable of traveling beyond Earth's atmosphere.
The term evokes mid-twentieth-century visions of space travel—finned vessels carrying astronauts to the moon or beyond: The kids played rocket ship in a cardboard box.
In contemporary usage, rocket ship often sounds nostalgic or playful, while spacecraft or rocket is more technical.
- spacecraftVehicle for outer space
- thrusterEngine providing forward force
- jet propulsionMotion via expelled mass
- moonshotBold, unlikely endeavor
- to the moonExpressing extreme degree
trajectory · space shuttles · Apollo missions · orbit · launchpad · escape velocity · NASA · space race · capsule · countdown · Buck Rogers · Jules Verne · light speed · liftoff · Flash Gordon · staging · reentry · engines
- TomorrowlandSpace Mountain, Buzz Lightyear, space suits, space stations, moon bases
- spacecraftspacecraft, starships, Voyager 1, Voyager 2, space shuttles
- classic sci-fiAsimov, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Clarke, Ray Bradbury
- space fictionscience fiction, sci-fi, astronaut, space adventure, spacecraft
- retrofuturismray guns, jetpacks, space helmets, bubble helmets, flying saucers
- celestial themescelestial navigation, sun worship, lunar cycles, night sky, heavens
rocket shipscovered wagons
Canvas-topped frontier vehicles
horse and buggy · stagecoaches · dugout canoes · travois · sedan chairs