spacecraft
noun
space·craft
ˈspās-ˌkraft 
: a vehicle or device designed for travel or operation outside the earth's atmosphere
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Once there, the Orion spacecraft will link up with the Starship lander, docking while orbiting above the moon’s surface.
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Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
The spacecraft is expected to take astronauts to the moon and eventually Mars.
—Jennifer Borresen, USA Today, 12 Oct. 2025
While three spacecraft would be powered by conventional fuel, the fourth would have a solar sail roughly a third of the size of a football field.
—Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2025
One particular problem was the relatively low resolution available from a mass spectrometer on Cassini called the Cosmic Dust Analyzer (CDA), which parsed the chemical composition of puffs of dust from ice grains striking its detectors each time the spacecraft swooped through a plume.
—Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2025
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Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
The spacecraft is expected to take astronauts to the moon and eventually Mars.
—Jennifer Borresen, USA Today, 12 Oct. 2025
While three spacecraft would be powered by conventional fuel, the fourth would have a solar sail roughly a third of the size of a football field.
—Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2025
One particular problem was the relatively low resolution available from a mass spectrometer on Cassini called the Cosmic Dust Analyzer (CDA), which parsed the chemical composition of puffs of dust from ice grains striking its detectors each time the spacecraft swooped through a plume.
—Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2025
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“Spacecraft.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spacecraft. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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spacecraft
noun
space·craft
ˈspā-ˌskraft
plural spacecraft
: a vehicle for travel beyond the earth's atmosphere
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