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USS Planet Express Ship "Bessie" – Futurama [138] 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 [139]
"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 ...
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 ...
The name Discovery was chosen to carry on a tradition based on ships of exploration, primarily HMS Discovery, one of the ships commanded by Captain James Cook during his third and final major voyage from 1776 to 1779, and Henry Hudson's Discovery, which was used in 1610–1611 to explore Hudson Bay and search for a Northwest Passage.
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.
The ship's distinctively long prow, giving it a length of 26.5 m (87 ft), houses an experimental full-effect cloaking device that can make it invisible on command. Beneath the invisibility field generator are storage compartments for probe droids, a speeder bike and other equipment.
When writing about civilian ships, consider omitting common prefixes (e.g. "MS") from the article body, as italicizing the ship's name is often enough to identify it as a ship. Do not use the definite article the before a prefix or when introducing a ship for the first time; e.g., at the beginning of the lead section:
Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle was the first crewed spacecraft to land on the Moon (July 20, 1969).. This is a list of all crewed spacecraft types that have flown into space, including sub-orbital flights above 80 km, space stations that have been visited by at least one crew, and spacecraft currently planned to operate with crews in the future. [1]