Where did the term “spaceship” originate from? Just wondering.
“War doesn’t determine who’s right. War determines who’s left.”
A large vessel to carry people and freight is a ship–especially one that is not limited to rails. Such a vessel traveling through space would be a space ship.
The earliest citation, hyphenated as space-ship, was in an early science fiction novel from 1894.
Tom~
The term was probably invented before the airplane. Otherwise, they might be called spaceplanes.
What’s a specimen? An Italian astronaut.
Cheese Head–
I don’t even want to hear about “innuendo.”