Moonship
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Moonship is a noun meaning (astronautics, science fiction) A spaceship designed for travelling to the Moon.
Meaning
(astronautics, science fiction) A spaceship designed for travelling to the Moon.
Example Sentences
The space agency has requested the Lockheed Missiles & Space Co. to develop a method for controlling trace contaminants inside a spacecraft. […] Unlike the Earth's atmosphere, the air inside a moonship doesn't get cleaned by rains or winds.
Other kits were for making aeroplanes, one a scale model of the Scandinavian Air Lines Douglas D.C.-8 which was expected to make the first flight from Britain to Los Angeles in April 1960. There was also a moonship of a type which the firm said will eventually reach the moon: all of which goes to show that sometimes toys precede the actual event and are not necessarily mementoes which come afterwards.
Word Forms
- moonships
- moon ship
- moon-ship
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include spaceship, spaceships, spacecraft, airship, starship, moonshee.
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