astroship
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editastroship (plural astroships)
- (science fiction) A spaceship; a starship.
- 1969, Illustrated weekly of Pakistan, page 75:
- The astroships — as we have named the future space vehicles — will be much more comfortable than the Apollo cabins.
- 1999, Joseph Neil Schulman, Brad Linaweaver, Profile in Silver: And Other Screenwritings, page 472:
- But we'd need to coordinate our efforts with another astroship.
- 2007, Kelly D. Bell, Visitors: A New Look at UFOs:
- If these are astroships from someplace besides our specific, physical universe, maybe they come from a place where our laws of physics do not apply, where there is no such thing as velocity/momentum.