Thesaurus entry: spaceship

Article: Rocket Ship Financed by Microsoft Founder Set to ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  June 3, 2004 ;     673 words ... ... Business News Jun. 3--A rocket ship financed by Microsoft co ... would be the first private spaceship to leave the earth's atmosphere ... SpaceShipOne, a three-seat rocket ship. At about 50,000 feet, the spaceship will be dropped from the ...

Article: Amazon.com founder's rocket-ship complex to open ...
AP Worldstream;  December 26, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Jeff Bezos expects a rocket-ship complex for his aerospace ... talked about sending a spaceship into orbit that launches ... eventually building spaceships that can orbit the Earth ... and operation of the rocket-ship complex. A 243,000 ...

Article: Private rocket ship has wild ride in quest for $10 ...
AP Worldstream;  September 30, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... kilometers) over the Mojave Desert. Spaceship designer Burt Rutan said he asked pilot ... to the first privately built, manned rocket ship to fly in space twice in a span of two ... year-old Melvill joked from atop the spaceship after it glided safely to a landing ...

Article: Rocket ship goes on wild ride after pilot refuses ...
Chicago Sun-Times;  September 30, 2004 ;     428 words ... ... of 64 miles over the Mojave Desert. Spaceship designer Burt Rutan said he asked pilot ... to the first privately built, manned rocket ship to fly in space twice in a span of two ... year-old Melvill joked from atop the spaceship after it glided safely to a landing ...

Dictionary definition: rocket ship
Webster's NewWorld Dictionary;      123 words ...Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 rocket ship spaceship Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Article: Son of the shuttle: NASA looks for a rocket ship; ...
Newsweek;  July 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... if they want to turn a profit. NASA has to build a better spaceship. So on July 1 NASA rocketeers plan to choose one of three ... require reliability like that of a jet plane, something no rocket ship has ever achieved. Pike thinks the future lies with projects ...

Article: Boy, 4, dies after ride on Disney World rocket ship
Daily Breeze;  June 15, 2005 ;     373 words ...LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- A 4-year-old boy died after a spin on a Walt Disney World spaceship ride so intense that some riders have been taken to the hospital with chest pain. Daudi Bamuwamye lost consciousness Monday aboard ...