Spacecraft



A spacecraft, or spaceship, was a vessel designed to operate in the vacuum of space.

These ranged from rockets to launch artificial satellites into planetary orbit (TV: Delta and the Bannermen, PROSE: Alien Bodies) to interstellar spacecraft, also known as starships, capable of reaching the edge of the universe. (COMIC: Voyage to the Edge of the Universe)

They could be made from any number of materials, such as plastic, ceramic or metal. (TV: The Hand of Fear)

Types

 * Flying saucers
 * Rockets
 * Space probes
 * Shuttlecrafts

Reference texts

 * Jane's Spacecraft of the Universe was a reference book mentioned by the Fourth Doctor. (TV: Destiny of the Daleks)
 * Jane's Spaceships was a reference book in the TARDIS library. Samantha Jones read it whilst travelling with the Eighth Doctor. (PROSE: War of the Daleks)