Given the numbers of large ships contracted for and built over the course of the past two or three years, the over-supply of space-aboard-ship is high and is rising.

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Greene's reincarnation of Icarus was born on a space ship -- part of a community of explorers on a 25-trillion mile search for life on another planet.

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What is a reasonable price to pay for an eight-man space ship made out of bamboo and magic?

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Played by Matt Smith, he journeys through "Time And Relative Dimension In Space" in his aptly-named ship, the TARDIS -- which looks like a blue British police call box on the outside, and is as iconographic a vehicle as the U.S.S. Enterprise, Millennium Falcon or DeLorean.

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To celebrate the design, it created a full-size model of part of this open space in the massive hangar-like building where parts of the ship were being built in Finland.

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One of those space freighters, a Japanese HTV-2 cargo ship, is slated to launch in just six days, NASA officials said.

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Its disruptive technology is a novel air-breathing and rocket engine that would enable the ship to go to space in one leap.

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NASA's slice of the pie includes a plan that would improve detection of near-Earth asteroids, send a solar-powered robot ship (like the NASA concept above) to capture one of the space rocks and tow it back to a stable orbit near Earth, where researchers could study it up close.

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The setting highlights the fundamental interchangeability of rebels and federation in any space opera: this time around, your ship is the last hope of the Federation, fighting through rebel-occupied sectors with vital intelligence.

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