spacecraft

[speys-kraft, -krahft] /ˈspeɪsˌkræft, -ˌkrɑft/

noun, plural spacecraft.

a vehicle designed for travel or operation in space beyond the earth's atmosphere or in orbit around the earth.

Origin

1955-60; space + craft

Examples from the web for spacecraft

Speaking of a vast wasteland, you might want to start picking out and clearing off a place for our spacecraft to land.
The spacecraft had cost a hundred and twenty-five million dollars.
They inspected the landing site and removed the spacecraft's television camera, a piece of tubing and the remote sampling arm.
Some bacteria survived over a year on a spacecraft on the moon.
Equally exciting, if less glamorous, will be the maiden voyages of spacecraft at the blue-collar end of space travel.
Better to knock it off course or tow it away using the gravitational attraction of a spacecraft sent to divert it.
spacecraft makers employ it to fold telescope mirrors and arrays of solar cells into small spaces on board satellites.
They can also travel further from their spacecraft because, in an emergency, they can get back faster.
Physicists are used to predicting spacecraft trajectories with great accuracy.
spacecraft computer technology is generally behind commercial technology because the primary consideration is reliability.

British Dictionary definitions for spacecraft

/ˈspeɪsˌkrɑːft/

noun

a manned or unmanned vehicle designed to orbit the earth or travel to celestial objects for the purpose of research, exploration, etc