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Serenity is a fictional spacecraft that appears in Joss Whedon's Firefly television series and related works. Set in the 26th century, the series follows the nine-person crew of the Firefly-class vessel, a small transport ship, as they earn a living through various legal and illegal means.
The design used for the starship is a flying saucer, inspired by the spate of UFO sightings during the 1950s, [citation needed] and which itself inspired the look of the exterior saucer section and interior design of another iconic starship, Star Trek's USS Enterprise, as well as the Jupiter 2 space craft from the original 1965 TV series Lost ...
Only 90 m (300 ft) long, these ships are described in Star Wars sources as largely consisting of a thick outer hull with its interior entirely open for modular cargo pods. These are held in place by a magnetic shield and allows the transport to accommodate 19,000 metric tons (42,000,000 lb) of cargo.
Top creator Markiplier — more than two years after his first YouTube-funded interactive special hit the video platform — is finally back with his next choose-your-own-adventure-style project ...
On April 20, 2023, Starship 24 performed the first full flight test on top of a Super Heavy booster, followed by a second test on November 18, 2023, when Starship 25 successfully completed hot-staging and passed the Kármán Line, becoming the first Starship to reach space as well as the heaviest object to ever reach space, before exploding at ...
The basic design of the original Enterprise "formed the basis for one of sci-fi's most iconic images". [93] In 1992, the National Air and Space Museum curator said "there is no other fantasy more pervasive in the conceptualization of space flight than Star Trek". [94]
Here's a look back at the most pivotal space missions from 2024. SpaceX caught a rocket booster. From Starship tests to Starliner woes, recapping the biggest spaceflight missions of 2024
The Zerg alien race in the video game StarCraft traverse space via sentient, organic vessels called "Leviathan". [7] Farscape's Moya is a female Leviathan transport vessel; a living sentient bio-mechanical space ship, who was once captured by the Peacekeepers. She escaped captivity along with the people imprisoned on her by the Peacekeepers.