VIRGY- SPACECRAFT

Soyuz 19 Spacecraft for the Apollo Soyuz Project

A spacecraft or spaceship is a craft or machine designed for spaceflight. Spacecraft are used for a variety of purposes, including communications, Earth observation, meteorology,navigation, planetary exploration and transportation of humans and cargo.
On a sub-orbital spaceflight, a spacecraft enters space and then returns to the surface, without having gone into an orbit. For orbital spaceflights, spacecraft enter closed orbitsaround the Earth or around other celestial bodies. Spacecraft used for human spaceflightcarry people on board as crew or passengers, while those used for robotic space missionsoperate either autonomously or telerobotically. Robotic spacecraft used to support scientific research are space probes. Robotic spacecraft that remain in orbit around a planetary body are artificial satellites. Only a handful of interstellar probes, such asPioneer 10 and 11, Voyager 1 and 2, and New Horizons, are currently on trajectories that leave our Solar System.
Spacecraft and space travel are common themes in works of science fiction.