List of fictional spacecraft

This is a list of fictional spacecraft, starships and exo-atmospheric vessels that have been identified by name in 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.^[1]

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

Orbital

See also Space Stations, below

• Moonraker 5 - Moonraker
• Orion III Spaceplane - passenger spaceplane - 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Space Shuttle Daedalus - Space Cowboys

Lunar

• The 'projectile' From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne^[2] (1865) - no name given
• The small spherical spaceship made of cavorite, in The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells (1901) - no name given
• Aries Ib - passenger lunar lander - 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Eagle - Moonbase Alpha's modular service craft - 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

Interplanetary

• Alexei Leonov - The ship in the film 2010: Odyssey Two
• Antares - ,,Defying Gravity
• Bebop - Cowboy Bebop
• Delta Glider - Orbiter (simulator)
• USSC Discovery 1 (XD-1) - 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Dreamy Boom Boom - Doctor Snuggles
• Goliath - The Hammer of God
• Freedom - Modified rescue space shuttle - Armageddon
• Independence - Modified rescue space shuttle - Armageddon
• Messiah - Deep Impact
• Orbit Jet - United Worlds XV-2, Rocky Jones, Space Ranger, 1954 TV series
• Shuttle-A - Orbiter (simulator)
• White Base - Mobile Suit Gundam
• Zero-X - Supermarionation film Thunderbirds Are Go
• DSS Alexander - StarCraft UED flagship
• Hyperion - flagship of Jim Raynor in StarCraft
• Mars 1 and Mars 2 - Mission to Mars

Interstellar

Military & exploration

See also: List of Starfleet starships ordered by class

• Ark - Transformers
• Andromeda Ascendant - Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
• 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 capital ships from the Battlestar Galactica universe, including Galactica, and Pegasus.
• Blue Typhoon - Sonic X
• Britannia 7 - An all-British craft accidentally launched into space in Come Back Mrs. Noah
• The Citadel - The flagship of the Alliance Fleet in Mass Effect
• Destiny - The ship in which Stargate Universe takes place
• 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.
• Indefatigable - One of the three frigates featured in Bucky O'Hare
• 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
• 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
• Normandy - Mass Effect
• Orbit Jet - winged-tail rocket ship Rocky Jones, Space Ranger
• Righteous Indignation - One of the three frigates featured in Bucky O'Hare
• Sajuuk - Homeworld2
• Screaming Mimi - One of the three frigates featured in Bucky O'Hare
• Spaceball One - Spaceballs
• Streaker - crewed by dolphins, from David Brin's Uplift Universe novels
• Sulaco - Conestoga-class light assault carrier from Aliens
• Troll One - Captain Kremmen
• Terran Battlecruiser - StarCraft
• 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).
• Nostalgia for Infinity and other Lighthugger style ships are used as both combat, exploration and freight ships in Alastair Reynold's Revelation Space sequence.
• The USS-Saratoga, an United States space carrier of the John F. Kennedy Class, Registry Number SCVN-2812, 525.6 meters in length, FTL travelwas via the Eckerly drive from the 1995-1996 FOX military science Fiction TV series SPACE: Above and Beyond

Transportation, freight, or colonization

• Nostromo - Commercial towing vessel from Alien (1979)
• Aniara - of Harry Martinson's space epos
• Eagle 5 - Spaceballs
• Liberty - Freelancer
• Britania - Freelancer
• Rheinland - Freelancer
• Kusari - Freelancer
• Hispania - Freelancer
• Cryo Tray's - Homeworld
• Icarus - Planet of the Apes (2001 film)
• SDF-2 Megaroad-01 - The successor ship to the Macross in the Super Dimension Fortress Macross universe, repurposed as a colonization ship
• 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
• 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)
• The Axiom - WALL-E
• The un-named starships of the Overlords described in Arthur C Clarke's novel Childhoods End (1953)

Intergalactic

• Several types of Stargate ships including the Daedalus-class battlecruiser of Earth or the O'Neill-class of the Asgard

Personal spacecraft

• 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
• Starship Damocles - an ancient spaceship from the computer game, Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space
• TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimension In Space) – the Doctor's time machine in Doctor Who, with the external appearance of a 1950s police box

Space Stations

• Asguard Station - Battlestar Galactica
• 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 – 'destroyed' diplomatic space stations – Babylon 5
• Babylon 5 – diplomatic space station – Babylon 5
• Battle School - Ender's Game and related books
• Companion 12 - Fireball XL5
• Daedalus - Space Camp
• 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
• Oberon - Planet of the Apes (2001 film)
• R.U. Sirius - Brewster Rockit: Space Guy! ^[3]
• Satellite 5 - large manned broadcasting base in Doctor Who
• Space Station V - rotating wheel space station - 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Star One - Blake's 7
• Thunderbird 5 - Thunderbirds
• XK72 - Blake's 7

See also

• List of ships (The Culture)
• List of Starfleet ship classes (Star Trek)
• List of Starfleet starships ordered by class (Star Trek)
• List of Star Wars capital ships
• Space battleship
• Spacecraft
• Starship
• Starship class

External links

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

References