Definition of spaceship
:a vehicle used for space travel
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In other words, the job is making sure astronauts and spaceships don't accidentally bring back to Earth anything harmful during exploration trips.
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Work from Santiago Calatrava, Frank Gehry, and Zaha Hadid rise out of the rural landscape like futuristic spaceships transplanted from another dimension entirely.
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In a more sensible world, a woman such as Mensch would be running around a train station warning commuters about the spaceships in the lavatory car.
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Reynolds also found the site used for the spaceport of Mos Eisley, where Hans Solo's spaceship is docked and the cantina where audiences meet Hans Solo.
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A spaceship prop left behind from a science-fiction film adds to the extraterrestrial feel.
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The spaceships, meanwhile, will hang out in orbit, and then depart en masse when Earth and Mars align favorably.
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ITS spaceships could begin flying to Mars about 10 years from now, if everything goes well, Musk added.
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In 1988, to mark the milestone that is turning 42, his party apparently featured the strange spectacle of a 15-foot spaceship, hovering in a haze of smoke, flashing lasers above his and his then-wife Ivana’s heads.
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First Known Use of spaceship
1880
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