space ships
Rockets for astronauts
Spaceships are vehicles designed for travel beyond Earth's atmosphere—the stuff of science fiction and, increasingly, reality.
The term covers everything from the Apollo capsules to the starships of imagination.
Usually two words or hyphenated (space ship, space-ship), though the solid form appears.
The spaceship landed on an uncharted planet.
- USS EnterpriseIconic American vessel name
- launchSet into motion
- starshipsCraft for distant galaxies
- hullOuter covering or frame
- tractor beamEnergy that pulls objects closer
shuttle · warp drive · warp speed · propulsion · Millennium Falcon · Serenity · rockets · solar sail · orbit · thruster · light year · Battlestar Galactica · interstellar travel · docking · landing gear · escape pod · mothership · TARDIS
technological advancement
space shipshorse-drawn carts
Animal-powered wheeled vehicles
canoes · dugout canoes · rowboats · covered wagons · sailing ships