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.

For other ships from Star Wars, Star Trek and other major franchises, see the separate lists linked below.

Orbital

See also Space Stations, below

• Moonraker 5 - Moonraker
• Watchtower - Justice League (TV series)
• Orbital airship
• "Ragnarok", a space shuttle, from "Final Fantasy VIII"
• Scorpio E-X-1 - It's About Time
• Space Shuttle Daedalus - Space Cowboys
• SpaceCub
• Toy Box - Planetes
• R-808 Phoca - Ace Combat 3
• SLAMS - EndWar and H.A.W.X
• Russian orbital satellite laser system - EndWar and H.A.W.X 2
• Deep Space Nine, also known as Terok Nor - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Lunar

• The unnamed 'projectile' in From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne (1865)
• Aries Ib - passenger lunar lander - 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Eagle - Moonbase Alpha's modular service craft - Space: 1999
• Hawk - A combat spacecraft similar to the Eagle - Space: 1999
• Friede - moon rocket in German film Frau im Mond aka Woman in the Moon, 1929
• Mayflower One - Airplane II: The Sequel
• TWA Moonliner - Disneyland full-size winged tail-sitter, exhibit, 1950s
• Conestoga - LEO-to-Moon "ferry" in Allen Steele's The Tranquillity Alternative, 1995

Interplanetary

• Alexei Leonov - The ship in the film 2010: Odyssey Two
• Anastasia - Dan Dare's personal ship
• Bebop - Cowboy Bebop
• USSC Discovery 1 (XD-1) - 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Goliath - The Hammer of God
• Independence - Modified rescue space shuttle - Armageddon
• Freedom - Modified rescue space shuttle - Armageddon
• Orbit Jet - United Worlds XV-2, Rocky Jones, Space Ranger, 1954 TV series
• White Base - Mobile Suit Gundam
• Zero-X - Supermarionation film Thunderbirds Are Go
• Hyperion - flagship of Jim Raynor in StarCraft
• Mars I and Mars II - Mission to Mars
• Magnetic sail
• Icarus The ship in the film Planet of the Apes (1968 film)

• Project Orion (nuclear propulsion)
• SA-43 Hammerhead Mk 1 - U.S.M.C. VTOL atmosphere/space fighter in 2063 - Space: Above and Beyond series, 1995
• F-302 Mongoose - air/space/hyperdrive strike craft - Stargate SG-1
• Torchship
• Von Braun - Jupiter-bound fusion powered spacecraft on exploratory mission - Planetes
• Valley Forge - American Airlines space freighter outfitted with geodesic dome greenhouses preserving the last forests - Silent Running
• Ares - transports the first human settlers to Mars in the novel Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

Interstellar

Military & exploration

• Amaterasu (Battleship) - Starship Operators

• Ark - Transformers

• Basestars (aka Baseships) - The Cylon capital ships in the Battlestar Galactica universe

• Basilica: Necropolis - The necromonger capital ship from The Chronicles of Riddick.

• Battlestars - The human battleship/carrier hybrids from the Battlestar Galactica universe, including Galactica, and Pegasus.

• "Bellerophon" - the ship that took colonists to Altair IV, in "Forbidden Planet"

• Britannia 7 - An all-British craft accidentally launched into space in Come Back Mrs. Noah

• USG Ishimura - The biggest planetcracker (miner ship) in Dead Space world.

• USS Enterprise, various incarnations from Star Trek - please see starfleet ships for more information, as per the description of this page.

• Event Horizon - spacecraft equipped with an experimental FTL propulsion system - Event Horizon

• ISA Excalibur - Earth Alliance-Minbari Victory class destroyer based on Vorlon technology from the Babylon 5 universe.

• Liberator - Blake's 7

• SDF-1 Macross - Transformable Warship "Battleship" - The Super Dimension Fortress Macross Japanese Anime (TV series) and Robotech (TV series)

• SMS Macross Quarter - Transformable Warship operated by Civilian Military Provider from Japanese Anime (TV Series) Macross Frontier

• Macarthur, From The Mote In God's Eye

• Moya and other Leviathans, sentient biomechanical ships in Farscape

• ND-001 Nadesico - High mobile battleship build by Nergal Heavy Industries - Martian Successor Nadesico

• ND-002 Cosmos - Large space battleship; bigger than the Nadesico - Martian Successor Nadesico

• ND-003 Kakitsubata - Battleship for use by the CEO of Nergal Heavy Industries - Martian Successor Nadesico

• ND-004 Shakuyaku - Sister ship of the Nadesico; almost identical - Martian Successor Nadesico

• Nemesis - Transformers

• SSV Normandy SR-1, Normandy SR-2 - Mass Effect

• Sovereign, Harbinger and other Reapers - sentient biomechanical ships from the Mass Effect series

• Pillar of Autumn cruiser, Forward Unto Dawn, In Amber Clad, Savannah frigates, Spirit of Fire support ship - United Nations Space Command, Halo series

• Truth and Reconciliation - Covenant Battlecruiser, Halo: Combat Evolved

• Shadow of Intent - Covenant Assault Carrier, Halo 3

• Star Destroyers - Mainstay of the Imperial Navy - Star Wars

• NSEA Protector from the film Galaxy Quest

• Rodger Young - Terran Federation ship used to transport the Mobile Infantry - Starship Troopers

• Orbit Jet - winged-tail rocket ship Rocky Jones, Space Ranger

• Streaker - crewed by dolphins, from David Brin's Uplift Universe novels

• Sulaco - Conestoga-class light assault carrier from Aliens

• Tsunami-fune - the most powerful Juraian Empire's spaceship-tree in the anime series Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki, in strict symbiosis with princess Sasami - "she" is also an entity

• Space Battleship Yamato - anime series Space Battleship Yamato (renamed the Argo in the dub Star Blazers); the Yamato's first voyage was to the Large Magellanic Cloud, so it could qualify as intergalactic.

• 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."

• Valkyrie - Titan A.E.

• USM Auriga - Alien Resurrection

Transportation, freight, or colonization

• Nostromo - Modified Lockmart CM-88B Bison Transport; Commercial towing vessel from Alien (1979)
• Aniara - of Harry Martinson's space epos
• Eagle 5 - Spaceballs
• Liberty - Freelancer
• Bretonia - Freelancer
• Rheinland - Freelancer
• Kusari - Freelancer
• Hispania - Freelancer
• Earth*Star Voyager
• Elysium - Pandorum
• Spirit Of Fire - Halo Wars
• Icarus - Planet of the Apes (2001 film)
• ISV Venture Star - Avatar
• SDF-2 Megaroad-01 - The successor ship to the Macross in the Super Dimension Fortress Macross universe, repurposed as a colonization ship
• Leonora Christine - Tau Zero
• Long Shot (Niven) with a Quantum II hyperdrive
• Millennium Falcon - Star Wars - please see Star Wars ships for more information, as per the description of this page.
• Moya - Farscape
• Planet Express Ship - Futurama (TV series)
• Rama (31/439) - The Rama universe of Arthur C. Clarke
• Serenity - Firefly class transport. Firefly and Serenity
• Scorpio - Blake's 7.
• Starship Titanic - A space-liner created by Douglas Adams and introduced in Life, the Universe and Everything
• Technodrome, in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures (originally not a spacecraft, Krang rebuilds it into one named Skullbuzzer)
• Triton Corsair - Earth Star Voyager
• Vanguard Explorer - Earth Star Voyager
• The Axiom - WALL-E
• USG Ishimura - Dead Space (video game)
• Phoenix-class colony ship - Halo (video game series)
• Valley Forge - Silent Running
• Kassandra - Cargo (2009 film)
• Hunter-Gratzner - Pitch Black (film)
• Titan - Titan A.E.
• Derelict - The Derelict is the name given to the abandoned alien spacecraft discovered by the crew of the deep space tug Nostromo in the 1979 science fiction film Alien
• Icarus I & II - Scientific vessel propelling warhead to jump-start the Sun from Sunshine (2007 film)

See also:

Flying saucer

Foo fighter

Unidentified flying object

Bioship

Interstellar ark

Jump drive

Wormhole

Intergalactic

• Several types of Stargate ships including the Daedalus-class battlecruiser of Earth, the O'Neill-class of the Asgard or the Aurora-class of the Lanteans.
• The Naggarok from Homeworld Cataclysm is mentioned to originate from extragalactic space using a highly experimental hyperdrive that can also be used as a reactionless drive. The Progenitors in Homeworld 2 are also said to have arrived into the Homeworld galaxy from outside and the speed of their ancient hyperspace cores make the Sajuuk theoretically capable of intergalactic jumps.
• Yuuzhan Vong Worldships from The New Jedi Order series of novels
• Andromeda Ascendant - Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
• Destiny - The ship in which Stargate Universe takes place

Gay Deceiver - An AI multiverse ship from RA Heinlein, The Number of the Beast

Personal spacecraft

• Damocles - A prized legendary spacecraft, shaped like a sword, that appears in Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space
• Heart of Gold - starship of Zaphod Beeblebrox, propelled by the revolutionary Infinite Improbability Drive, in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Ryo-Ohki - Ryoko's spacecraft, shaped as a giant crystal, in the anime series Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki - "she" is able to change shape assuming the form of a small animal or a humanoid (female) form
• Satellite of Love - a mobile, manned craft shaped like a bone that appears in Mystery Science Theater 3000
• TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimension In Space) – the Doctor's time machine in Doctor Who, with the external appearance of a 1950s police box
• Athena - Solaris (2002 film)
• Narcissus - Modified Lockmart Starcub Light Intrasystem Shuttle; shuttlecraft for the Weyland-Yutani commercial hauler USCSS Nostromo in the film Alien
• EEV - Bodenwerke Gemeinschift Type 337 Emergency Escape Vehicle Alien 3
• Betty - Alien Resurrection

Space Stations

• Babylon 1 - 'destroyed' diplomatic space station - Babylon 5
• Babylon 2 - 'destroyed' diplomatic space station - Babylon 5
• Babylon 3 - 'destroyed' diplomatic space station - Babylon 5
• Babylon 4 – 'missing', presumed destroyed, diplomatic space station – Babylon 5
• Babylon 5 – diplomatic space station – Babylon 5
• Cylon Basestar
• Death Star - Star Wars
• Deep Space Nine - originally Terok Nor, orbital ore processing station, later moved out of orbit and refitted as a multipurpose space station - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• Vanguard Station - Star Trek Vanguard
• Oberon - Planet of the Apes (2001 film)
• R.U. Sirius - Brewster Rockit: Space Guy!
• Thunderbird 5 - Thunderbirds
• Satellite 5 - large manned broadcasting base in Doctor Who
• Space City - Blake's 7.
• Space Station V - rotating wheel space station - 2001: A Space Odyssey^{[citation needed]}
• ISPV 7 space station - Planetes
• The Citadel - A massive space station that serves as the hub of galactic politics and economics for the species that are involved in galactic politics - Mass Effect Mass Effect 2
• Omega - A mined out astroid and safe haven for criminals Mass Effect 2
• Midway Station - Small space station located between the Milky Way Galaxy and Pegasus Galaxy with 2 Stargates - Stargate Atlantis
• World's Fair - Earth Star Voyager
• XK-72 - Blake's 7.
• The American Freedom Star in EndWar
• The "Cairo", "Malta" and "Athens", "Magnetic Acceleration Cannon"-stations (aka MAC-stations), a part of a larger geosync orbital defence cluster built to protect Earth. The Halo series
• New Bangkok - Titan A.E.

See also

• List of Doctor Who vehicles
• List of Dune ships
• List of Kerberos Saga vehicles
• List of fictional space navies
• List of minor Mobile Suit Gundam SEED spacecraft
• List of minor Mobile Suit Gundam SEED warships
• List of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED vehicles and aircraft
• List of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 warships and spacecraft
• List of Robotech vehicles#Spaceships
• List of spacecraft from the Space Odyssey series
• List of ships in Battlestar Galactica (2004)
• List of ships (The Culture)
• List of spaceships in The History of the Galaxy
• Lists of Star Trek ships
• List of Star Wars capital ships
• List of Star Wars starfighters
• List of Star Wars spacecraft
• List of Universal Century vehicles and craft
• Military spacecraft in fiction
• Non-rocket spacelaunch
• Space tourism
• Spaceships in Transformers: Cybertron
• Space dock
• Space battleship
• Spacecraft
• Starship
• Starship class
• United States gravity control propulsion research (1955–1974)

External links

• Starship Dimensions - A graphic comparison of fictional spaceship sizes.