Spacecraft Spacecraft Valerian (plant) Category="Spacecraft"[image] A spacecraft is a Vehicle that travels through space. Spacecraft include robotic or unmanned space probes as well as manned vehicles. The term is sometimes also used to describe artificial satellites, which have similar design criteria.

Overview

The term spaceship is generally applied only to spacecraft capable of transporting people.

A Space suit has at times been called a miniature spacecraft or spaceship, emphasizing its purpose of keeping its wearer alive while traveling in the Vacuum of outer space.

The spacecraft is one of the primal elements in Science fiction. Numerous short stories and novels are built up around various ideas for spacecraft. Some Hard science fiction books focus on the technical details of the craft, while others treat the spacecraft as a given and delve little into its actual implementation.

Examples of past or existing spacecraft

Manned Unmanned

Spacecraft under development

The US Space Command, according to its "Long Range Plan", is currently planning to develop a weaponized spaceship, which has yet to be announced.

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