spaceshipnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈspeɪs.ʃɪp/us/ˈspeɪs.ʃɪp/(especially in stories) a vehicle used for travel in space
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Space travel
- astronaut
- astronautics
- autopilot
- blast
- command module
- cosmonaut
- earthbound
- flyby
- heat shield
- launch pad
- moon buggy
- NASA
- retrorocket
- rocket
- rocket science
- rocket ship
- spaceman
- touchdown
- tracking station
- UFO
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Examples from literature
- A spaceship must match its speed before it can connect with the station.
- Does it sound unlikely that spaceships full of miners may someday travel to outer space?
- In 1865, the French writer Jules Verne published a novel about three men who traveled in a spaceship to the moon.
- In addition, your spaceship needs enough room in it to bring the valuable minerals back to Earth.
- Just over one hundred years later, the USA successfully sent its three-man Apollo 11 spaceship to the surface of the moon.
- Obviously such a journey for humans would be a voyage of no return, and is presently impossible without a way of producing the necessary air, food, and equipment on the spaceship.