Spacecraft

A spacecraft is a vehicle that travels through space. Spacecraft include robotic or unmanned space probes as well as manned vehicles.

The term spaceship is generally applied only to spacecraft capable of transporting people.

A spacesuit has at times been called a miniature spacecraft or spaceship, emphasizing its purpose of keeping its wearer alive while traveling in the vacuum of outer space.

Some spacecraft:

• WMAP
• Voyager I and II
• Stardust
• Shenzhou spacecraft
• Cassini
• Pioneer 10
• Genesis (spacecraft)

See also

• attitude control
• expendable launch systems
• space shuttle
• starship
• thruster
• spacecraft propulsion