A spacecraft is a vehicle built to travel outside the atmosphere. An unmanned spacecraft, dock the spacecraft, the spacecraft re-entered.
The word is the same in the singular and the plural, like aircraft. Most of one is fuel, because there is no way to push against anything out there, and the hardest engineering problems are heat on re-entry and keeping people alive on the way.
1nounspacecraftA vehicle built to travel outside the atmosphere.
“The spacecraft landed safely on the surface of Mars.”
spacecraft is a vehicle.
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From space + -craft. space comes from Middle English space, from Anglo-Norman space, from espace. From Middle English space, from Anglo-Norman space, variant of espace, espas, et al.; and spaze, variant of espace, from Latin spatium, from Proto-Indo-European (s)peh₂- (“to stretch, to pull”). Partially displaced native rum, whence Modern English room.
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