List of fictional spacecraft
Appearance
This is a list of fictional spacecraft, starships, and exo-atmospheric vessels that have been identified by name in published works of fiction (novels, films, television series, etc).
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Small craft
- Boeing Aries 1B - Lunar Transfer Vehicle - 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968
- Bottle Suit - maintenance/repair craft, Von Braun/Disney, Man in Space, 1955
- Delta Pod - one-man spacecraft - Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes
- F-302 - hyperdrive/space/atmosphere strike craft - Stargate SG-1
- Jupiter II Pod - excursion module/lander - Lost in Space series
- Lunar Recon Ship RM-1 - Wernher von Braun design, Disney's Man and the Moon, 1955
- The Pod - one-passenger, alien-design for galactic travel - Contact, 1997 from Carl Sagan 's novel
- Grumman EVA Pods - maintenance craft Anna, Betty & Clara - 2001: A Space Odyssey
- TREV I - Magical Trevor 2
- Hinagiku - Nadesico's shuttle craft
- MarsShip Lander - manned, winged tail-lander descends from the Stuhlinger-designed MarsShip - Disney's Mars and Beyond, 1957
- Lockheed Martin MoonBus LTTV-2 - above surface transport - 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Narcissus - escape/shuttle Alien
- Starbug and Blue Midget - Red Dwarf TV series
- ThunderFighter - starfighter on Buck Rogers ' 70s TV series
- Viper Mark II - Starfighter used on battlestar-class starships in Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Suborbital
- A-10- german manned V-2 rocket - Operation Crossbow, 1965
- Ajax- Imperial War Rocket- Flash Gordon (film), 1980
- Convair Space Shuttle - Revell kit 1958
- Gekko-Go, aka Moonlight - Eureka Seven
- Hammerhead Mk 1 - 2063 USMC space/atmosphere fighter - Space: Above and Beyond series, 1995
- Trans Space Lines Passenger Rocket - suborbital - Monogram kit 1959
- Tsien Spaceplane - China-derived from V-2, ten passengers - 1949 & 1978
- VentureStar - cancelled spaceplane resurrected in John Varley 's Red Thunder novel
Orbital
- CR-1 - multi-stage satellite launcher, von Braun/Disney Man in Space
- Orion III - orbital Pan Am Clipper spaceplane - 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Sanger Space Transporter - launch vehicle & manned orbiter - Revell kit 1991
- XR-2 Cargo Ferry - von Braun orbital design - Disney's Man in Space, 1955
- Space colony ARK - Sonic Adventure 2
Lunar
- Astronef - A Visit to the Moon
- BIS Moonlander - British Interplanetary Society design 1939
- Cavorite Sphere - First Men in the Moon, by HG Wells
- Columbiad - From the Earth to the Moon & Around the Moon, by Jules Verne
- Convair Lunar Recon Vehicle - Glencoe kit 1958
- Friede - moon rocket in German film Frau im Mond aka Woman in the Moon, 1929
- Luna - Destination Moon, 1950
- La Lune Capsule - Georges Melies' B&W silent fantasy, A Trip to the Moon, 1902
- Lunar Eagle - 12 to the Moon, 1960
- TWA Moonliner - Disneyland full-size exhibit, 1950s
- Moon Space Shuttle - ' 50s Lindberg kit
- XSL-01 Moonship - four boosters w/ moon shuttle - Revell ' 50s kit
Interplanetary
- Ace of Space - patrol craft of the Planeteers ' Tommy Tomorrow - DC Comics
- Alexei Leonov - 2010: The Year We Make Contact
- Anastasia - Dan Dare comics series
- Angel Links - Angel Links
- Archangel - Gundam SEED
- Bebop, Swordfish II, Redtail, Hammerhead - Cowboy Bebop
- Beta - Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers ' 50s TV series
- SS Botany Bay - hi-jacked 20st century sleeper ship - Star Trek: TOS episode ' Space Seed '
- Brutus - Firefly
- Calculus Rocket - Adventures of Tintin series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé
- Capella - Voyage to a Prehistoric Planet - see Planet of Storms
- Comet - Captain Future, ' 50s pulp series
- CosmoStrator - First Spaceship on Venus, 1962
- Discovery 1 (XD-1) - 2001: A Space Odyssey
- IAV Dortmunder - Firefly
- Eagle - Dan Dare british comics series
- Freedom - Armageddon
- Galaxy - interplanetary, interstellar ship operated by Captain Video (TV series)
- Galaxy II - a later version of Captain Video's interstellar spaceship
- Galasphere 347 - Space Patrol TV puppet series
- Godphoenix - Science Ninja Team Gatchaman
- Gort Patrol Craft - space/time-travel saucer brings Klaatu on The Day The Earth Stood Still 1951
- Guinevere One - Doctor Who TV series
- Heavenly Harmony - Chinese manned craft races to Mars - John Varley 's Red Thunder
- Ikaria XB1 - Czech film dubbed as Voyage to the End of the Universe
- Independence - Armageddon
- Ironman One - Marooned
- Iroquois - UNSC Destroyer - Halo
- The Kite - The Last Hero: A Discworld Fable
- Lewis and Clark - Rescue vessel which responded to the automated becon of the Event Horizon
- Leviathan - Marathon Class Cruiser - Halo
- IAV Magellan - Firefly
- MarsLiner - repainted Disney Moonliner - Glencoe kit
- Mars-1 - Red Planet, 2000
- Mars Gravity Probe-1 - in Robinson Crusoe on Mars, 1964
- Mars 2 Recovery - Mission to Mars, 2000
- Mars One - nuclear three wing craft - Flight to Mars, 1951
- Messiah - Deep Impact
- Michael - Footfall by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
- Norad-II, III - StarCraft
- Orbit Jet - United Worlds XV-2, Rocky Jones, Space Ranger, ' 50s TV series
- Phoenix - Zefram Cochane's X-warpship - Star Trek
- Pillar of Autumn - Heavily modified UNSC Halcyon-class cruiser - Halo
- Polaris - nuclear-powered rocket cruiser of Tom Corbett, Space Cadet TV series (also comics, radio, books)
- Potent Voyager - The Colour of Magic, Discworld series
- R-XM - Rocketship X-M, 1950
- Relay Girl - Venus Equilateral series
- Saturn VB Ares - 1986 Mars Mission - Voyage, by Stephen Baxter
- Sirius - cosmonauts & robot land on Venus - Planet of Storms aka Planeta Burg (Russian) 1962
- Space Ark - When Worlds Collide, 1951
- Space Gun Cylinder - Things to Come by HG Wells, 1936
- Serenity - Firefly
- Terra IV & Terra V - Space Patrol, 1950s TV series
- The Trimaxion Drone Ship - Flight of the Navigator
- Umbrella MarsShip - nuclear-ion drive, Ernest Stuhlinger design, Disney's Mars and Beyond, 1957
- White Base - Mobile Suit Gundam
- Valley Forge - space-faring forest biopshere, along with Sequoia & Berkshire, Silent Running, 1972
- X-9 - interplanetary, interstellar space ship - Captain Video -- originally describe as a "rocket plane"
- Zero-X - Thunderbirds Are Go
Interstellar
Military & Exploration
- Arcada - Space Quest
- Arwing - Star Fox series
- Andromeda Ascendant - Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
- DSS Alekssander - StarCraft: Brood War
- Balance of Judgment - Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
- Battlestar Galactica - Battlestar Galactica (1978) & 2003 remake
- Battle 7 - Macross 7
- Boise, Chicago, Britannia, Z9M9Z, Dauntless - E. E. Smith's Lensman series
- HMS Camden Lock - promotes 22nd century British interests - Hyperdrive, BBC series
- C-57D - United Planets Cruiser, Forbidden Planet, 1956
- TCS Concordia - Wing Commander
- USS Cygnus - The Black Hole
- Crimson Sunrise - Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
- Daedalus - Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis
- SCS DeepShip 86 - Space Quest
- Dentless - Randall Garrett's "Backstage Lensman" parody
- Draconian Marauder - Buck Rogers ' 70s series
- CNV 301 Dreadnaught - Independence War (aka I-War)
- Durandal - Xenosaga
- USS Enterprise, various incarnations - Star Trek
- Event Horizon - Exploration craft missing for 7 years. From the movie Event Horizon
- Far Star - Foundation's Edge and Foundation and Earth, by Isaac Asimov
- HMS Fearless - Honorverse
- Fireball XL5
- Gantrithor - StarCraft
- Gothlauth - Crest of the Stars
- SCS Goliath - Space Quest
- Great Fox - Star Fox Series
- USS Grissom - Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
- Heart of Gold - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
- In Amber Clad - Halo 2
- Jupiter 2 - Lost in Space, film & series
- Korolev - Stargate SG-1
- Leonora Christine - novel Tau Zero by Poul Anderson
- LEXX, a living spaceship - Lexx
- Liberator - Blake's 7
- Lysithea - Hoshi no Koe
- INSS MacArthur - The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
- SDF-1 Macross - The Super Dimension Fortress Macross and Robotech television series
- UESC Marathon - Marathon
- The Massive - Invader Zim
- Marco Polo Mother Class Spaceship - Perry Rhodan
- Metaluna Saucer - This Island Earth, 1955
- Million Voices - Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
- Nadesico ND-001, Cosmos ND-002, Kakitsubata ND-003, Shakuyaku ND-004 - Martian Successor Nadesico
- Nell - Battle Beyond The Stars
- New Frontiers - Methuselah's Children
- HMS Nike - Honorverse
- Nimbus - Futurama
- ECS5 Norway - Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh
- Odyssey - Stargate SG-1
- The Orbit Jet - Rocky Jones, Space Ranger
- Outlaw Star - XGP15A-II, Outlaw Star
- USS Palomino - The Black Hole
- Pax Magellanic - Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
- Phoenix - Battle of the Planets (the original Godphoenix in Science Ninja Team Gatchaman was not capable of interstellar travel)
- Pillar of Autumn - Halo
- Planet Express Ship - Futurama
- Pleroma - Xenosaga
- Prometheus - Stargate SG-1
- USS Prometheus - Star Trek
- NSEA Protector - Galaxy Quest
- Resolute and Resolute II, exocarriers - Exosquad
- TFCT Rodger Young- troop transport, Starship Troopers
- Scorpio - Blake's 7
- Skydiver, Long Shot (also Ringworld), Slower Than Infinity, Drunkard's Walk, Hobo Kelly - Crashlander
- Skyflash - Flash Gordon ' 50s series
- Skylark, Skylark Two, Skylark Three, Skylark of Valeron, DQ - E. E. Smith's Skylark series
- Sol Bianca - Sol Bianca anime movies
- Solar King - DC Comics Space Ranger
- Spaceball One - Spaceballs
- Spaceship Zero - Spaceship Zero
- Space Beagle - The Voyage of the Space Beagle, by A. E. van Vogt
- Spartacus - Independence War Deluxe Edition
- Starplex - Starplex, by Robert J. Sawyer
- Sulaco - Aliens
- Talyn - Farscape
- The TARDIS - an unconventional time/space vessel, Doctor Who
- Truth and Reconcilliation - Halo
- TCS Tiger's Claw - Wing Commander
- Under New Ownership - Independence War (aka I-War)
- Voot Cruiser - Invader Zim
- USS Voyager (NCC-74656) - Intrepid Class Starship - Star Trek
- Woglinde - Xenosaga
- Wolfen - Star Fox series
- Space Battleship Yamato - anime series Space Battleship Yamato (renamed the Argo in the dub Star Blazers)
See also: A list of heavy cruiser-type starships
Transportation, Freight, or Colonization
- Ark - The Starlost
- Asgard - novel Starman Jones by Robert A. Heinlein
- Auriga - Alien: Resurrection
- Bellerophon - colonist ship mentioned in Forbidden Planet
- Betty - Alien: Resurrection
- Big Dog - generation ship, Starship by Brian W. Aldiss)
- SCS Eureka - Space Quest
- Blue Midget - Red Dwarf
- Dark Star
- Eldritch Child, later renamed Zodiacal Light - Redemption Ark, a novel by Alastair Reynolds.
- Elsa - Xenosaga
- Fhlosten Paradise cruiseShip - The Fifth Element, 1997
- Guild Heighliners - folded-space travel ships, Dune series by Frank Herbert
- Hunter Gratzner - Pitch Black movie
- Icarus - Planet of the Apes
- Kobayashi Maru - Star Trek
- London - Blake's 7
- Magellan - novel The Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke
- Millennium Falcon - Star Wars
- Nostalgia for Infinity - Revelation Space, a novel by Alastair Reynolds.
- Nostromo - Alien
- Phoenix - The Foreigner universe of C. J. Cherryh
- Planet Express Ship - Futurama
- Rama (31/439) - The Rama universe of Arthur C. Clarke
- Red Dwarf - Red Dwarf
- Satellite of Love - MST3K
- Solar Queen - Solar Queen series of novels by Andre Norton
- Starbug - Red Dwarf
- Starship Titanic - Starship Titanic and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
- The Titan and the Valkyrie - Titan A.E.
- UNS Unity - Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
- Kelvin Multi-Generation Ship - from the Andromeda Galaxy in the Star Trek: TOS episode ' By Any Other Name '
- The Vanguard - generation ship, Orphans of the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
- Whorl of the Long Sun - generation ship, The Book of the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe
- Tantra - spaceship of the cosmic expedition No. 37, Andromeda by Ivan Yefremov
Personal Spacecraft
- Aluminum Mallard - Roger Wilco’s ship in Space Quest III.
- Starship Bistromath - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
- Captain's Yacht Cousteau - official transport craft of Starship NCC-1701-E
- Starship Damocles - a unique interstellar vessel from the computer game, Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space
- E-Ship - Bonus Stage
- Eagle 5 - the ship of Captain Lonestar in Spaceballs, it resembles a caravan with wings
- Gomtuu - Betazoid Tam Elbrun boards starship creature aka ' Tin Man ', Star Trek: TNG episode Tin Man
- Kal-El's ship - a small ship capable of holding an infant, Superman comics and Smallville
- Moya - a living spaceship, Farscape
- Ryo-ohki - a cabbit/spaceship, Tenchi Muyo!
See also
- Archive of fictional things
- List of Starfleet ship classes
- List of Star Wars capital ships
- Spacecraft
- Starship
- Starship class
- Space battleship
External links
- Starship Dimensions - A graphic comparison of fictional spaceship sizes.
- CineSpaceships - Database on spaceships in movies.