Where did the term “spaceship” originate from? Just wondering.
“War doesn’t determine who’s right. War determines who’s left.”
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.”