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Grace's spaceship can be spun like a centrifuge to create artificial gravity so that scientific instruments will work properly.—Tara Haelle, NPR, 12 Apr. 2026 Virgin Galactic uses a spaceship that launches from a carrier aircraft at high altitude.—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2026 Hansen responded with the crew’s request to name two craters on the Moon, one for their Integrity spaceship and the other for Wiseman’s late wife, Carroll, who died of cancer in 2020.—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 7 Apr. 2026 Isaacman’s comments come as the Artemis II crew on Monday successfully traveled farther than any astronauts before them when their Orion spaceship slingshotted around the Moon propelled by the celestial body’s gravitational force.—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for spaceship