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.
Spaceships are often one of the key plot devices 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, Robotech, and other major franchises, see the separate lists linked below.
Space stations
Shuttles
- Moonrakers – Drax Industries NASA-style Space Shuttles featured in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker and in the 2012 video game 007 Legends.
- Orion III – a shuttle used to transport Dr. Heywood Floyd into space, in and
- SSTO-TAV-37B Space Shuttlecraft – used in James Cameron’s 2009 film Avatar
[Space Shuttle orbiter]s
- Churchill – Lifeforce
- Daedalus – Space Cowboys
- Explorer – from the 2013 film Gravity
- Excalibur – Henry Henshaw's shuttle in Superman comics.
- Intrepid – in Payne Harrison's novel Storming Intrepid
- Odyssey – Odyssey 5
- Pleiades – in David Brin's novel Earth
- Roger – the anthropomorphic NASCA Space Shuttle orbiter in the Cars Toons episode "Moon Mater"
- X-71 shuttles – specialized USAF Space Shuttle orbiters from the 1998 film Armageddon
Lunar
- Aries Ib – passenger lunar lander in and '
- Eagle Transporter – Moonbase Alpha |Moonbase Alpha's modular service craft in '
- Friede – Moon rocket in 1929 German film Frau im Mond
- Mark IX Hawk – space fighter similar to the Eagle in '
- Mayflower One – '
- Unnamed "projectile" – From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon by Jules Verne
Interplanetary
- Alexei Leonov – a Soviet spacecraft from ' and '
- Anastasia – Dan Dare's personal ship
- Bebop — titular ship of the series Cowboy Bebop
- Bilkis – an experimental spaceship in the anime series Geneshaft
- Excelsior – from the 1918 Danish film Himmelskibet, "The film that marked the beginning of the space opera subgenre of science fiction." — Phil Hardy
- Hermes – a reusable NASA spacecraft manufactured by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the Ares program to Mars in Andy Weir's and Ridley Scott's The Martian
- *MAV and MDV landers – non-reusable landers used during the Ares missions
- Hunter IV – personal fighter of Samus Aran from the Metroid series
- Rocket – from Little Einsteins
- F-302 Mongoose – air/space/hyperdrive strike craft in Stargate SG-1
- Icarus – Planet of the Apes, 1968
- Icarus I and Icarus II – spaceships from the 2007 movie Sunshine
- Lewis & Clark – rescue ship sent to retrieve the Event Horizon
- Mars I and Mars II – from the 2000 film Mission to Mars
- Messiah – an Orion spacecraft designed to prevent a comet hitting Earth in the 1998 film Deep Impact
- Nightflyer – craft from the American horror science fiction television series Nightflyers
- Odyssey – spacecraft designed to visit Saturn's moon Titan in the 2013 film Oblivion
- Orbit Jet – United Worlds XV-2 Rocky Jones, Space Ranger, 1954 TV series
- Rocinante – Martian corvette, centerpiece of The Expanse
- Ryvius – the title spacecraft from the anime series Infinite Ryvius
- SA-43 Hammerhead Mk 1 – U.S.M.C. VTOL atmosphere/space fighter in 2063 , 1995 TV series
- Scorpio E-X-1 – It's About Time
- Serenity – an interplanetary spacecraft from the TV series Firefly and the 2005 science fiction movie Serenity
- USSC Discovery One and Discovery Two – the two spacecraft involved in the so-called "Jupiter Mission" in the Space Odyssey franchise
- USS Cygnus – from Disney’s The Black Hole
- Valley Forge – American Airlines space freighter, outfitted with geodesic dome greenhouses preserving the last forests in the 1972 film Silent Running
- Zero-X – supermarionation film Thunderbirds Are Go
Interstellar
Military or exploration
- Amaterasu – the third Freedom Guard Ship of the Kibi Planetary Nation '
- Arcadia – the most powerful space battleship in the Captain Harlock universe, created by Tochiro Oyama as his final gift to his friend Harlock before his inevitable demise
- LCAM-01XA Archangel – a state-of-the-art warship from the anime Mobile Suit Gundam SEED & SEED Destiny. The first of its class, which it also takes its name from Archangel. She has a nearly identical sister-ship known as the Dominion. Both ships are named after the Hierarchy of angels, and had there been a 3rd sister-ship, she would've most likely been called the Seraphim.
- Argonaut – the most advanced starship of the Iron Tribe in the anime series Heroic Age
- Ark – a ship from Transformers. The flagship of the Autobots commanded by Optimus Prime in several Transformers series. The computer of the ship was called Teletraan I, and it provided intelligence to the Autobots for their various missions. The original series saw it crashing on Earth several million years prior to 1984, and it was discovered some three million years before then by the characters of '.
- Aurora- Private starship owned by Alterra which had a mission of terraforming planets but was shot down when attempting a slingshot maneuver around planet 4546B.
- Athena – starship which transports humans to a space station orbiting the planet Solaris in the 2002 film Solaris
- Avalon – the Homestead Company starliner in the film Passengers, which transports emigrates from the Earth to Homestead II
- Axiom – the Buy n Large starliner in the films WALL-E and BURN-E, which is used, together with other starships, to provide a temporary home for humanity, but the originally planned 5-year cruise turns into a 700-year time period.
- Basroil – a starship commanded by Lafiel in the anime series Banner of the Stars
- Basestar – the Cylon capital ships in the Battlestar Galactica universe
- Bellerophon – the ship that took colonists to Altair IV in Forbidden Planet
- C-57D – the United Planets cruiser that was sent to the planet Altair IV in Forbidden Planet
- Conquistador – the largest battleship of the Henrietta Planetary Alliance '
- Daban Urnud – interdimensional Starship that visits the planet of Arbe in the Neil Stephenson Novel Anathem
- "The Derelict" – the name given to the abandoned alien spacecraft discovered by the crew of the deep space tug Nostromo in the film Alien
- ' – The Predacon transwarp ship in the Beast Wars television series. The name was spelled with a y in the ' video game and in the DVD box set. In IDW Publishing's 2008 Beast Wars Sourcebook it was spelled "Darkside". The ship's computer was voiced by Elizabeth Carol Savenkoff.
- Destiny Ascension – an Asari dreadnaught with a crew of 10,000 that serves as the flagship of the Citadel fleet in the Mass Effect universe
- EAS Agamemnon – '
- Endurance – NASA spaceraft/space station hybrid capable of traveling through wormholes, mothership to Rangers and Landers in Interstellar
- *Lander – two cargo spacecraft used in the Endurance mission to transport materials from the Endurance to Mann's planet; Lander 1 is later used by TARS to propel the craft far enough from SMBH Gargantua.
- *Ranger – various SSTO spaceplanes featured in Interstellar: the Ranger Test Article, piloted by Cooper during his crash; the twelve Rangers used during the Lazarus missions to carry astronauts through the wormhole to twelve potentially habitable planets; Ranger 1 and Ranger 2 used to carry personnel from the Endurance to Miller's, Mann's and Edmunds's planets ; the futuristic Rangers, used around Saturn as the Cooper station's auxiliary craft.
- Event Horizon – gravity drive exploration starship, aiming to explore Proxima Centauri, disappears on its maiden voyage and rediscovered seven years later with its crew missing, a space-borne "Mary Celeste"
- Hyperion – the flagship of Jim Raynor in StarCraft
- UNSC Infinity: the flagship of the postwar unsc navy in the halo universe.
- ISA Excalibur – Earth Alliance '
- Island Cluster Class Colonization Ship 25 – Colony Fleet consisting on a transformable fighting ship, the main population vessel and other smaller islands from the anime Macross Frontier
- Jupiter 2 – fictional nuclear-powered spacecraft from the television series Lost in Space
- Karrajor – a warship from the Cartoon Network series Megas XLR. It serves as a mothership for the squid-like alien race known as the Glorft.
- R.L.S. Legacy – a space exploration vessel from the Disney animated film Treasure Planet. It is a space ship that is designed to emulate a Sailing ship from the 1600s.
- Liberator – Blake's 7
- Libertad – a sub-light speed training ship in the anime series '
- Megazone – the title spaceship in the OVA series Megazone 23
- Minbari – Victory-class destroyer based on Vorlon technology from the Babylon 5 universe
- Murray Leinster – Destroyed at the beginning of the cult film Starcrash
- Nautilus – flagship space yacht of International Transport Spacelines from Event 0|Event
- Nemesis – flagship of the Decepticons '
- Nirvana – a supership from the anime series Vandread
- Normandy SR-1 – an alliance frigate that serves as Commander Shepard's base of operations in the Mass Effect universe
- Normandy SR-2 – a larger and more advanced version of the original Normandy constructed by Cerberus that is assigned to Commander Shepard in the Mass Effect universe
- NSEA Protector – a starship from the cult film Galaxy Quest
- Olympus Mons – flagship of the Settlement Defense Front fleet in.
- Orbit Jet – winged-tail rocket ship '
- Orion – saucer patrol craft in Raumpatrouille
- Prometheus – Weyland Corporation scientific vessel
- Raza – interstellar spaceship from the television series Dark Matter
- Red Dwarf – spaceship from the same named BBC sci-fi comedy series Red Dwarf
- Retribution – the only operational carrier after an SDF attack in.
- SDF-1 Macross – a massive interstellar transforming spacecraft from the anime Super Dimension Fortress Macross and its American adaptation, Robotech
- Rodger Young – Corvette transport in the novel Starship Troopers
- SDF-3 Pioneer – the flagship of Admiral Rick Hunter in '
- Searcher – space exploration vessel from the second season of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
- Shangri-La – the mothership of the Mu race in the manga and anime series Toward the Terra
- Star Destroyer – capital ships used by the Galactic Republic, the Galactic Empire and the First Order and by the Rebel Alliance in the Star Wars universe
- Starship Tipton – a fictional re-imagining of the SS Tipton cruise liner from the Disney Channel Original Series The Suite Life on Deck. It serves as the main setting in a Star Trek-themed episode and it features Star Trek alum George Takei as a special guest.
- USS Sulaco – Conestoga-class light assault carrier from the sequel Aliens
- Swordbreaker – the mysterious spaceship owned by Kain Blueriver in the anime series Lost Universe
- Terra V – Buzz Corey's space cruiser in Space Patrol
- Tigris – the only operational destroyer after a massive attack by the SDF in.
- Titan – the title spaceship in the movie Titan A.E
- USS Enterprise – various incarnations of a space exploration vessel from Star Trek; see Starfleet ships for more information
- USS Saratoga – a space carrier in ', aboard which serve the members of the U.S. Marine Corps Space Aviator Cavalry, 58th Squadron, or "Wildcards"
- USS Voyager – the primary ship in ; see starfleet ships for more information
- Valkyrie – Titan A.E.
- Vanguard – generational ship from Robert A. Heinlein's Orphans of the Sky
- Venture Star – starship transporting humans to the moon Pandora in the 2009 film Avatar
- Yamato – the title spaceship of the anime series Space Battleship Yamato
- *Known as The Argo in the American localized version.
- Yggdrasil – starship owned by the Templars and used for the transportation of the nine Pilgrims to the planet Hyperion in the 1990 Dan Simmons Novel Hyperion
- ’’USS Orville’’ - The titular vessel from the 2017-present TV series ‘’The Orville’’
Space fighters
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- SA-23J Thunderbolt
- Raider Fighter
- Nial-class heavy fighter
- Frazi-class fighter
- Sentri-class medium fighter
- Shadow fighter
- Vorlon fighter
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- Colonial Viper
- Colonial Viper MK. II
- Colonial Blackbird
- Colonial Raptor
- Cylon Raider
- Cylon Heavy Raider
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- Star Fighter
- Hawk's Fighter
- Draconian Marauder
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- Star League Gunstar
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- SA-43 Hammerhead Endo/Exo-Atmospheric Attack Jet
- Chig fighter
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- Sidon warships
''[Stargate]''
- X-301
- F-302
- Death glider
- Needle Threader
- Wraith dart
- Ori fighter
''[Star Wars]''
Galactic Republic
- ARC-170 starfighter
- V-19 Torrent starfighter
- V-wing starfighter
- Jedi starfighter
- Jedi interceptor
- Naboo starfighter
- A-wing
- B-wing
- U-wing
- X-wing
- Y-wing
- Various TIE fighter models
- Droid starfighter
- Geonosian starfighter
- Droid Tri-Fighter
Other properties
- RF-42 Centaur Tactical Fighter
- UNSC C-709 Longsword Interceptor
- UNSC YSS-1000 Sabre Space Superiority Fighter – notably, uses a Shuttle-style booster system for planetary launch
- UNSC F-41 Broadsword Exo-atmospheric Multirole Strike Fighter
- Dark Aster, the ship of Ronan the Accuser in Guardians of the Galaxy
- Milano, the ship of Peter Quill in Guardians of the Galaxy and Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2. Replaced by a similar ship, the Benatar in ', and '
- Sanctuary II, the ship of Thanos in , Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame
Transportation
- Eagle 5 – Spaceballs
- Elysium – Pandorum
- Endeavour – from Rendezvous_with_Rama by Arthur C. Clarke, 1973; carried explorers to rendezvous with Alien spacecraft Rama
- Hispania – Freelancer
- Hunter-Gratzner – Pitch Black
- Millennium Falcon – Star Wars universe
- Nostromo – modified Lockmart CM-88B Bison Transport; commercial towing vessel from the movie Alien
- Planet Express Ship – Futurama
- Rama – Rendezvous_with_Rama by Arthur_C._Clarke, 1973
- The Massive – Invader ZIM
- The Resisty's Ship – Invader ZIM
- Voot Runner – Invader ZIM
Intergalactic
- Andromeda Ascendant – Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
- Deucalion – an enormous transforming spaceship over 63,000 km long from the anime series Kiddy Grade
- Destiny – the ship in which Stargate Universe takes place
- Stargate ship types including the Daedalus-class battlecruiser of Earth, the O'Neill-class of the Asgard or the Aurora-class of the Lanteans.
Personal spacecraft
- Betty – from Alien Resurrection
- EEV – Bodenwerke Gemeinschaft Type 337 Emergency Escape Vehicle in the sequel Alien 3
- Escape pods – escape spacecraft often used in Star Wars
- EVA pods – multi-functional vehicles used in '
- Narcissus – modified Lockmart Starcub Light Intrasystem Shuttle; shuttlecraft for the Weyland-Yutani commercial hauler USCSS Nostromo in the film Alien
- Phoenix – first Earth spacecraft to achieve faster-than-light speed using warp drive; spaceship that instigated Earth's first contact with aliens in '.
- SS Emporium – Taybor the Trader's spacecraft, featured in the Year Two ' episode "The Taybor". The spaceship Emporium, inspired to the Mars Excursion Module, is equipped with a special Jump Drive engine, which allows it to travel between two points via teleportation in hyperspace.
- TARDIS – various spacecraft-time machine hybrids equipped with some sort of jump drive featured on the television series Doctor Who. Many TARDIS versions are featured, the Doctor's one externally resembles a British police box.
- *Tardis – the police box-resembling spacetime machine in the two spin-off Dr. Who films: Dr. Who and the Daleks and '.
Lists of fictional spacecraft
- List of fictional space stations
- List of films featuring space stations
- List of ships in Starship Operators
- List of Star Wars starfighters
- List of Star Wars spacecraft