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USS Planet Express Ship "Bessie" – Futurama [139] Radiant Pillar BC1 – No Man's Sky startership; The first ship the player has access to. Rama – Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke, 1973 (an alien spaceship, their name for it unknown) Razor Crest – Transport ship used by Din Djarin and Grogu in The Mandalorian [140]
A generation ship, generation starship or world ship, [1] is a hypothetical type of interstellar ark starship that travels at sub-light speed. Since such a ship might require hundreds to thousands of years to reach nearby stars, the original occupants of a generation ship would grow old and die, leaving their descendants to continue traveling.
Finalist names were ranked by the public between March 23–29, 2009 from among Adventure, Amelia, Journey, Perception, Pursuit, Sunrise, Vision, Wonder, and Curiosity. [5] through a public poll on the NASA website. [6] On May 27, 2009, the winning name was announced to be Curiosity from the winning essay by Clara Ma, then a sixth-grader from ...
"Ship" and its derivatives in this context have since come to be in widespread usage. "Shipping" refers to the phenomenon; a "ship" is the concept of a fictional couple; to "ship" a couple means to have an affinity for it in one way or another; a "shipper" or a "fangirl/boy" is somebody significantly involved with such an affinity; and a "shipping war" is when two ships contradict each other ...
The ship celebrates "Ostara," a unique birth ritual where everyone learns who is allowed to have a baby to keep the ship's population at 600. Meanwhile, Christa follows a ghostly figure, who resembles Lorelei, laughing down the hall to the party. Viondra announces three couples' names, one of which is Duke and Emily Vanderhaus.
M.G.B. 1087, motor gunboat in The Ship That Died of Shame, a short story by Nicholas Monsarrat in The Ship That Died of Shame and Other Stories, 1959; Milka – Jingo by Terry Pratchett, 1997 (name parodies the Pinta) Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, 1851 Pequod – American whaling ship searching for Moby-Dick; Bouton de Rose – French whaler ...
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A spacecraft prefix is a combination of letters, usually abbreviations, used in front of the name of a spacecraft, and its purpose is often analogous to more conventional ship prefixes. This list does not include prefixes used on rockets, rocket launches, and spaceflights.