List of fictional spacecraft
Appearance
This is a list of fictional spacecraft, starships, and exo-atmospheric vessels that have been identified by name in published works of fiction (novels, films, television series, etc).
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Small craft
- Aries - Lunar Transfer Vehicle - 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Bottle Suit - maintenance/repair craft, Von Braun/Disney, Man in Space
- Delta Pod - one-man spacecraft - Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes
- Lunar Recon Ship RM-1 - Wernher von Braun design, Disney's Man and the Moon
- EVA Pods - maintenance craft Anna, Betty & Clara - 2001: A Space Odyssey
- TREV I - Magical Trevor 2
- Hinagiku - Nadesico's shuttle craft
- Narcissus - escape/shuttle Alien
- Starfighter - Buck Rogers ' 70s series
- Viper Mark II - Starfighter used on battlestar-class starships in Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Interplanetary
- Alexei Leonov - 2010: The Year We Make Contact
- Angel Links - Angel Links
- Archangel - Gundam SEED
- Astronef - A Visit to the Moon
- Bebop, Swordfish II, Redtail, Hammerhead - Cowboy Bebop
- Beta - Rod Brown, Rocket Rangers ' 50s series
- Brutus - Firefly
- Calculus Rocket - Adventures of Tintin series by Belgian cartoonist Herge
- Cavorite Sphere - First Men In The Moon, by HG Wells
- Columbiad - From the Earth to the Moon & Around the Moon, by Jules Verne
- Comet - Captain Future, ' 50s series
- Convair Lunar Recon Vehicle - Convair design 1958
- CosmoStrator - First Space Ship On Venus
- Discovery 1 (XD-1) - 2001: A Space Odyssey
- IAV Dortmunder - Firefly
- Eagle - Dan Dare comics series
- Freedom - Armageddon
- Friede - moon rocket in German film Frau im Mond aka Woman In The Moon
- Galasphere 347 - Space Patrol puppet series
- Godphoenix - Science Ninja Team Gatchaman
- Guinevere One - Doctor Who
- Independence - Armageddon
- Ironman One - Marooned
- The Kite - The Last Hero: A Discworld Fable
- Luna - Destination Moon
- IAV Magellan - Firefly
- MarsLiner - repainted Disney Moonliner (kit)
- Mars-1 - Red Planet
- Mars Gravity Probe-1 - movie Robinson Crusoe on Mars
- Mars 2 Recovery - Mission To Mars
- Messiah - Deep Impact
- Michael - Footfall by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
- TWA Moonliner - Disneyland full-size exhibit
- Norad-II, III - StarCraft
- Orbit Jet - United Worlds XV-2, Rocky Jones - Space Ranger, ' 50s series
- Potent Voyager - The Colour of Magic, Discworld series
- R-XM - Rocketship X-M
- Space Gun Cylinder - Things To Come by HG Wells
- Serenity - Firefly
- Terra IV & Terra V - Space Patrol, 1950s series
- The Trimaxion Drone Ship - Flight of the Navigator
- Umbrella MarsShip - Ernest Stuhlinger design, Disney's Mars & Beyond
- White Base - Mobile Suit Gundam
- Valley Forge - space-faring forest biopshere, along with Sequoia & Berkshire in Silent Running
- Zero-X - Thunderbirds Are Go
Interstellar
Military & Exploration
- Arwing - Star Fox series
- Andromeda Ascendant - Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
- DSS Alekssander - StarCraft: Brood War
- Balance of Judgment - Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
- Battlestar Galactica - Battlestar Galactica (1978) & 2003 remake
- Britannia, Z9M9Z, Dauntless - E. E. Smith's Lensman series
- C-57D - United Planets Cruiser, Forbidden Planet
- TCS Concordia - Wing Commander
- USS Cygnus - The Black Hole
- Crimson Sunrise - Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
- Daedalus - Stargate SG-1
- Dentless - Randall Garrett's "Backstage Lensman" parody
- Draconian Marauder - Buck Rogers ' 70s series
- CNV 301 Dreadnaught - Independence War (aka I-War)
- Durandal - Xenosaga
- USS Enterprise, various incarnations - Star Trek
- Far Star - Foundation's Edge and Foundation and Earth, by Isaac Asimov
- HMS Fearless - Honorverse
- Fireball XL5
- Gantrithor - StarCraft
- Gothlauth - Crest of the Stars
- USS Grissom - Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
- Heart of Gold - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
- In Amber Clad - Halo2
- Jupiter 2 - Lost in Space
- Leonora Christine - novel Tau Zero by Poul Anderson
- LEXX, a living spaceship - Lexx
- Liberator - Blake's 7
- INSS MacArthur - The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
- SDF-1 Macross - The Super Dimension Fortress Macross and Robotech television series
- UESC Marathon - Marathon
- Massive - Invader Zim
- Marco Polo Mother Class Spaceship - Perry Rhodan
- Metaluna Saucer - This Island Earth
- Million Voices - Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
- Nadesico ND-001, Cosmos ND-002, Kakitsubata ND-003, Shakuyaku ND-004 - Martian Successor Nadesico
- New Frontiers - Methuselah's Children
- HMS Nike - Honorverse
- Nimbus - Futurama
- ECS5 Norway - Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh
- Odyssey - Stargate SG-1
- The Orbit Jet - Rocky Jones, Space Ranger
- Outlaw Star - XGP15A-II, Outlaw Star
- USS Palomino - The Black Hole
- Pax Magellanic - Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
- Phoenix - Battle of the Planets (the original Godphoenix in Science Ninja Team Gatchaman was not capable of interstellar travel)
- Pillar of Autumn - Halo
- Planet Express Ship - Futurama
- Pleroma - Xenosaga
- Prometheus - Stargate SG-1
- NSEA Protector - Galaxy Quest
- TFCT Rodger Young- troop transport, Starship Troopers
- Scorpio - Blake's 7
- Skydiver, Long Shot (also Ringworld), Slower Than Infinity, Drunkard's Walk, Hobo Kelly - Crashlander
- Skyflash - Flash Gordon ' 50s series
- Various Skylarks - E. E. Smith's Skylark series
- Sol Bianca - Sol Bianca anime movies
- Solar King - DC Comics Space Ranger
- Spaceball One - Spaceballs
- Spaceship Zero - Spaceship Zero
- Space Beagle - The Voyage of the Space Beagle, by A. E. van Vogt
- Spartacus - Independence War Deluxe Edition
- Starplex - Starplex, by Robert J. Sawyer
- Sulaco - Aliens
- Talyn - Farscape
- The TARDIS - an unconventional time/space vessel, Doctor Who
- Truth and Reconcilliation - Halo
- TCS Tiger's Claw - Wing Commander
- Under New Ownership - Independence War (aka I-War)
- Woglinde - Xenosaga
- Space Battleship Yamato - anime series Space Battleship Yamato (renamed the Argo in the dub Star Blazers)
See also: A list of heavy cruiser-type starships
Transportation, Freight, or Colonization
- Asgard - novel Starman Jones by Robert A. Heinlein
- Auriga - Alien: Resurrection
- Bellerophon - mentioned in Forbidden Planet
- Betty - Alien: Resurrection
- Big Dog - generation ship, Starship by Brian W. Aldiss)
- Blue Midget - Red Dwarf
- Dark Star
- Eldritch Child, later renamed Zodiacal Light - Redemption Ark, a novel by Alastair Reynolds.
- Elsa - Xenosaga
- Heighliner Spaceships - folded-space travel in Dune series by Frank Herbert
- Hunter Gratzner - Pitch Black movie
- Icarus - Planet of the Apes
- London - Blake's 7
- Magellan - novel The Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke
- Millennium Falcon - Star Wars
- Nostalgia for Infinity - Revelation Space, a novel by Alastair Reynolds.
- Nostromo - Alien
- Orion III - orbital Pan Am Clipper, 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Phlosten Paradise - The Fifth Element
- Phoenix - The Foreigner universe of C. J. Cherryh
- Planet Express Ship - Futurama
- Rama (31/439) - The Rama universe of Arthur C. Clarke
- Red Dwarf - Red Dwarf
- Satellite of Love - MST3K
- Solar Queen - Solar Queen series of novels by Andre Norton
- Space Ark - When Worlds Collide
- Starbug - Red Dwarf
- Starship Titanic - Starship Titanic and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
- The Titan and the Valkyrie - Titan A.E.
- The Vanguard - generation ship, Orphans of the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
- Whorl of the Long Sun - generation ship, The Book of the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe
- X-2 Cargo Ferry - Wernher von Braun orbital, Disney's Man in Space
Personal Spacecraft
- Starship Bistromath - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
- Gomtuu - starship creature aka ' Tin Man ', in Star Trek: TNG episode Tin Man
- Moya - a living spaceship, Farscape
- Ryo-ohki - a cabbit/spaceship, Tenchi Muyo!
- Kal-El's ship - a small ship capable of holding an infant, Superman comics and Smallville
See also
- Archive of fictional things
- List of Starfleet ship classes
- List of vehicles in Star Wars
- Spacecraft
- Starship class
External links
- Starship Dimensions - A graphic comparison of fictional spaceship sizes.
- CineSpaceships - Database on spaceships in movies.