List of fictional spacecraft

This is a list of fictional spacecraft, starships and exo-atmospheric vessels that have been identified by name in notable published works of fiction. The term "spacecraft" is mainly used to refer to spacecraft that are real or conceived using present technology. The terms "spaceship" and "starship" are generally applied only to fictional space vehicles, usually those capable of transporting people. The spaceship is one of the prime elements in science fiction. Numerous short stories and novels are built up around various ideas for spacecraft, and spacecraft have featured in many films and television series. Some hard science fiction books focus on the technical details of the craft. Some fictional spaceships have been referenced in the real world, notably Starship Enterprise from Star Trek which gave its name to Space Shuttle Enterprise and to the VSS Enterprise.^[1] For other ships from Star Wars, Star Trek, Robotech, Transformers, and other major franchises, see the separate lists linked below.

Space stations

See List of fictional space stations.

Shuttles

(Planet to orbit)

• Churchill – Lifeforce ^[2]
• Daedalus – Space Cowboys ^[2]
• Explorer – from the 2013 film Gravity ^[3]
• Intrepid – in Payne Harrison's novel Storming Intrepid ^[4]
• Moonraker – used in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker ^[5]
• Pan Am Space Clipper (Orion III) – a shuttle used to transport Dr. Heywood Floyd into space, in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey ^[6]
• Ranger 3 – from the 1979 TV series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
• SSTO-TAV-37B Space Shuttlecraft – used in James Cameron’s film Avatar ^[7]
• Thunderbird 3 – a SSTO (Single Stage to Orbit) used by International Rescue in the TV show Thunderbirds
• X-71 Military Space Shuttles (Freedom and Independence) – modified space shuttles from the film Armageddon ^[8]
• Lifeboat – from the sci-fi video game Hero's Duty in the 2013 film Wreck-It Ralph

Lunar

• Aries Ib – passenger lunar lander in 2001: A Space Odyssey ^[9]
• Eagle Transporter – Moonbase Alpha's modular service craft in Space: 1999 ^[10]
• Friede – moon rocket in 1929 German film Frau im Mond (Woman in the Moon) ^[11]
• Lunar module – spacecraft designed for aircraft-Moon travels in the UFO TV series
• Mark IX Hawk – space fighter similar to the Eagle in Space: 1999 ^[12]
• Mayflower One – Airplane II: The Sequel ^[13]
• Moon Hopper – auxiliary lander in the UFO TV series
• SHADO Interceptor – space fighter in the UFO TV series
• Unnamed "projectile" – From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon by Jules Verne ^[14] (1865)
• Vulture – the home-made moon rocket from the TV series Salvage 1

Interplanetary

• Alexei Leonov – 2010 ^[15]
• Anastasia – Dan Dare's personal ship ^[16]
• Axiom – the starliner in the film WALL-E, was used to provide a temporary home for humanity ^[17]
• Bilkis – an experimental spaceship in the anime series Geneshaft ^[18][19]
• Excelsior – from the 1918 Danish film Himmelskibet (A Trip to Mars), "The film that marked the beginning of the space opera subgenre of science fiction." — Phil Hardy ^[20]
• Freedom and Liberty – asteroid drilling craft (Armageddon)
• F-302 Mongoose – air/space/hyperdrive strike craft in Stargate SG-1 ^[21]
• Icarus – Planet of the Apes, 1968 ^[22]
• Icarus I and Icarus II – spaceships from the 2007 movie Sunshine ^[23]
• Lewis & Clark – rescue ship sent to retrieve the Event Horizon ^[24]
• M.A.R.S-1 – Flight to Mars from 1951. The same spaceship model was used in many other films, such as Queen of Outer Space.
• Mars I and Mars II – from the 2000 film Mission to Mars ^[25]
• Marveller – Spider-Man
• Messiah – Deep Impact
• Moya – the sentient ship with a soul from science fiction series Farscape
• Orbit Jet – United Worlds XV-2 Rocky Jones, Space Ranger, 1954 TV series ^[26]
• Ryvius – the title spacecraft from the anime series Infinite Ryvius ^[27]
• SA-43 Hammerhead Mk 1 – U.S.M.C. VTOL atmosphere/space fighter in 2063 Space: Above and Beyond, 1995 TV series ^[28]
• Scorpio E-X-1 – It's About Time ^[29]
• Serenity – an interplanetary spacecraft from the TV series Firefly and the 2005 science fiction movie Serenity ^[30][31]
• Theseus – Blindsight
• USSC Discovery One (XD-1) – 2001: A Space Odyssey ^[32]
• USS Cygnus – from Disney’s The Black Hole ^[33]
• Valley Forge – American Airlines space freighter, outfitted with geodesic dome greenhouses preserving the last forests in the 1972 film Silent Running ^[34]
• Vanguard – generational ship from Robert A. Heinlein's Orphans of the Sky
• Zero-X – supermarionation film Thunderbirds Are Go ^[35]

Interstellar

Military or exploration

• Amaterasu (天照) – the third Freedom Guard Ship of the Kibi Planetary Nation (Starship Operators) ^[36][37]
• Argonaut – the most advanced starship of the Iron Tribe in the anime series Heroic Age ^[38]
• Ark – Transformers ^[39]
• Basroil – a starship commanded by Lafiel in the anime series Banner of the Stars ^[40][41]
• Basestar – the Cylon capital ships in the Battlestar Galactica universe ^[42]
• Battlestar – the human battleship-carrier hybrids from the Battlestar Galactica universe, including Galactica, and Pegasus ^[43]
• Bellerophon – the ship that took colonists to Altair IV in Forbidden Planet ^[44]
• C57 -D – the United Planets cruiser that was sent to the planet Altair IV in Forbidden Planet ^[45]
• Conquistador – the largest battleship of the Henrietta Planetary Alliance (Starship Operators) ^[46]
• "The Derelict" – the name given to the abandoned alien spacecraft discovered by the crew of the deep space tug Nostromo in the science fiction film Alien (1979) ^[47]
• Destiny Ascension – an Asari dreadnaught with a crew of 10,000 that serves as the flagship of the Citadel fleet in the Mass Effect universe ^[48][49]
• EAS Agamemnon – (Babylon 5) ^[50]
• Earth-Star Voyager, Trident Corsair and Vanguard Explorer – TV movie/pilot for canceled series Earthstar Voyager. Also notable are Expo Tomorrow (an abandoned, man-made research satellite) and the OTZ or Outlaw Technology Zone (a tribalistic group of scavengers and pirates)
• Elysium – Pandorum
• Endurance – mothership in Interstellar ^[51]
• Event Horizon – gravity drive exploration star-ship, aiming to explore Proxima Centauri, disappears on its maiden voyage and rediscovered seven years later with its crew missing, a space-borne "Mary Celeste"
• Hyperion – the flagship of Jim Raynor in StarCraft ^[52]
• ISA Excalibur – Earth Alliance (Babylon 5) ^[53]
• Jupiter 2 – fictional nuclear-powered spacecraft from the television series Lost in Space (1965–68) ^[54]
• Liberator – Blake's 7 ^[55]
• Libertad – a sub-light speed training ship in the anime series Strain: Strategic Armored Infantry ^[56]
• Megazone – the title spaceship in the OVA series Megazone 23 ^[57]
• Minbari – Victory-class destroyer based on Vorlon technology from the Babylon 5 universe ^[58]
• Nemesis – flagship of the Decepticons (Transformers) ^[59]
• Nirvana – a supership from the anime series Vandread ^[60]
• Normandy SR-1 – an alliance frigate that serves as Commander Shepard's base of operations in the Mass Effect universe ^[61][62]
• Normandy SR-2 – a larger and more advanced version of the original Normandy constructed by Cerberus that is assigned to Commander Shepard in the Mass Effect universe ^[61][62]
• NSEA Protector – a starship from the film Galaxy Quest ^[63]
• Orbit Jet – winged-tail rocket ship (Rocky Jones, Space Ranger) ^[64]
• Orion – saucer patrol craft in Raumpatrouille ^[65]
• Prometheus – Weyland Corporation scientific vessel ^[66]
• SDF-1 Macross – a massive interstellar transforming spacecraft from the anime Super Dimension Fortress Macross and its American adaptation, Robotech ^[67]
• SDF-3 Pioneer – the flagship of Admiral Rick Hunter in Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles ^[68]
• Shangri-La – the mothership of the Mu race in the science fiction manga and anime series Toward the Terra (地球へ… Terra e...) ^[69]
• Spaceball One – Spaceballs
• Star Destroyer – mainstay capital ships of the Imperial starfleet (Star Wars) ^[70]
• U.S.S. Sulaco – Conestoga-class light assault carrier from Aliens ^[71]
• Swordbreaker – the mysterious spaceship owned by Kain Blueriver in the anime series Lost Universe ^[72]
• Terra V – Buzz Corey's space cruiser in Space Patrol ^[73]
• Titan – the title spaceship in the movie Titan A.E ^[74][75]
• TFNS Irena Riva y Silva – a 2-kilometer-long monitor that serves as Fleet Admiral Raymond Prescott's flagship in David Weber's Starfire series. It was destroyed during the Battle of Home Hive 5. (Designation: Task Group 71.1, Task Force 71, 7th Fleet)
• USS Enterprise – various incarnations from Star Trek; see starfleet ships for more information ^[76][77]
• USS Saratoga – a space carrier in Space: Above and Beyond, aboard which serve the members of the U.S. Marine Corps Space Aviator Cavalry, 58th Squadron, or "Wildcards" ^[78]
• USS Voyager – the primary ship in Star Trek: Voyager; see starfleet ships for more information^[79]
• Valkyrie – Titan A.E.^[80]
• Von Braun – System Shock 2. The UNN Rickenbacker is also of central importance though itself not an interstellar craft.
• Yamato (大和) – the title spaceship of the anime series Space Battleship Yamato ^[81]

Space fighters

"Space fighters" are fictional spacecraft analogous to fighter aircraft. They are popular as the subjects of flight simulators, movies and books. The following are some examples of notable space fighters from various media franchises:

Babylon 5

Battlestar Galactica

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

The Last Starfighter

• Star League Gunstar (first major movie to use CGI for space battle sequences) ^[98]

Space: Above and Beyond

Stargate

Star Wars

In the Star Wars universe, a "starfighter" is a blanket term for all small combat space craft, regardless of shields, hyperspace capability, weaponry (unless it carries none), armor, maneuverability and crew. "Snubfighter" (a term first used in Star Wars), though no concise definition has been given, often refers to a fighter carrying shielding, secondary weapons systems such as proton torpedoes or concussion missiles, and being hyperspace capable. Starfighters sometimes bear mission designations similar to modern fighter aircraft, such as "strike fighter" and "space superiority fighter".

Other properties

Andromeda

• RF-42 Centaur Tactical Fighter ^[123]

Halo

• UNSC C-709 Longsword Interceptor ^[124]
• UNSC YSS-1000 Sabre Space Superiority Fighter – notably, uses a Shuttle-style booster system for planetary launch ^[125]
• UNSC F-41 Broadsword Exo-atmospheric Multirole Strike Fighter ^[126]

Transportation

• Eagle 5 – Spaceballs ^[127]
• Elysium – Pandorum ^[128]
• Frigate – Dune universe
• Heighliner – Dune universe
• Hispania – Freelancer ^[129]
• Hunter-Gratzner – Pitch Black ^[130]
• Millennium Falcon – Star Wars universe ^[131]
• Nostalgia for Infinity – Revelation Space
• Nostromo – modified Lockmart CM-88B Bison Transport; commercial towing vessel from the movie Alien ^[132]
• Planet Express Ship – Futurama ^[133]
• Red Dwarf – Red Dwarf
• Serenity – Firefly-class transport, Firefly and Serenity ^[134]
• Space Skimmer – an advanced spacecraft invented to travel across an 11,000-world empire at shocking speeds, consisting of a spherical field surrounding a constantly modulating interior of silvery shimmering vanes, from the novel Space Skimmer ^[135]

Intergalactic

• Andromeda Ascendant – Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda ^[136]
• Deucalion – an enormous transforming spaceship over 63,000 km long from the anime series Kiddy Grade ^[137][138]
• Destiny – the ship in which Stargate Universe takes place ^[139]
• Stargate ship types including the Daedalus-class battlecruiser of Earth, the O'Neill-class of the Asgard or the Aurora-class of the Lanteans.^[140]

Personal spacecraft

• Bat-Rocket – Batman
• Betty – Alien Resurrection ^[141]
• Dora – Lazarus Long's personal spacecraft appearing in two of Robert A. Heinlein's books, Time Enough for Love and The Number of the Beast
• EEV – Bodenwerke Gemeinschaft Type 337 Emergency Escape Vehicle in Alien 3 ^[142]
• Escape Pod – used by C-3PO and R2-D2 to escape from the empire in Star Wars: A New Hope ^[143]
• EVA Pod – multi-functional vehicle used in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey ^[144]
• Javelin – used by the Justice League
• Lemon Rocket – Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures
• Gay Deceiver – personal spacecraft of Zebadiah John Carter in Robert A. Heinlein's The Number of the Beast
• Narcissus – Modified Lockmart Starcub Light Intrasystem Shuttle; shuttlecraft for the Weyland-Yutani commercial hauler USCSS Nostromo in the film Alien ^[145]
• TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension In Space) – the Doctor's time machine in Doctor Who, with the external appearance of a 1950s police box ^[146]
• Technowing – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Lists of fictional spacecraft

• List of Doctor Who vehicles
• List of Dune ships
• List of fictional space navies
• List of fictional space stations
• List of films featuring space stations
• List of ships in Starship Operators
• List of spacecraft from the Space Odyssey series
• List of ships in Battlestar Galactica (2004)
• List of ships of the Culture
• List of Space: 1999 vehicles
• Lists of Star Trek ships
• List of Star Wars starfighters
• List of Star Wars spacecraft
• Spaceships in Transformers: Cybertron

See also

• Bioship
• Flying saucer
• Foo fighter
• Interstellar ark
• Jump drive
• Military spacecraft in fiction
• Non-rocket spacelaunch
• Space dock
• Space tourism
• Spacecraft
• Starship
• Unidentified flying object
• United States gravity control propulsion research (1955–1974)
• Wormhole

References

External links

• Starship Dimensions - A graphic comparison of fictional spaceship sizes.
• Hypergate - Spaceship pics in HD quality.