Plural of spaceship; vehicles designed to travel through space beyond Earth's atmosphere.
A compound word from 'space' (from Old French 'espace,' from Latin 'spatium') and 'ship' (Old English 'scip'). The word became common in English after science fiction emerged in the early 20th century.
The first spaceships used rocket technology developed by Nazi Germany during WWII—after the war, both the US and Soviet Union captured German scientists and rockets, which is why the space race essentially started with German engineering!
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