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spacecraft|ˈspeɪskrɑːft, -æ-|
Also space-craft, space craft. Pl. spacecraft.
[space n.1]
Any vehicle designed to travel in space.
1930Sci. Amer. Aug. 142/1 Valier was the principal proponent of working toward the space craft from the known forms of surface or air craft. 1932D. Lasser Conquest of Space xvii. 279 Our experience with cosmic speeds and distances is not equal to the task of guiding a space-craft on its perilous journey. 1946[see artificial a. 1 c]. 1959Observer 2 Aug. 11/5 In the next few days, 40,000 ft. above the Californian desert, the world's first manned spacecraft will switch on its rocket engines for the first time. 1960New Statesman 13 Feb. 214/2 One..complains bitterly of the ‘world-wide conspiracy in operation throughout this planet which has succeeded in suppressing almost all knowledge of, and discussion of the space-craft known to terrestrials as ‘Flying Saucers’’. 1960Guardian 15 Dec. 9/5 An American attempt to put a 388 lb spacecraft into orbit around the moon. 1968Times 12 Oct. 18/6 They suggest that the altitude measurement made by the Russian space craft as it approached the surface of Venus was almost exactly half what it should have been. 1976A. Davis Television: First Forty Years 47 There are graphics departments..and props departments that can build models of, say, spacecraft. |