Both SXC and Virgin Galactic will loft customers above the 100-kilometer boundary, coast weightless for five to six minutes with that life-affirming Spaceship Earth view, and glide back to planet.

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The Fortress of Solitude is apparently a Kryptonian spaceship hidden underground on Earth.

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This peculiarly misconceived comedy stars Eddie Murphy in a dual role, as Dave, a humanoid spaceship that lands on Earth in order to move unnoticed among earthlings, and as the tiny outer-space homunculus who is its captain.

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It's a simple story: war has wrought a nuclear winter that threatens to wipe out all life on Earth, and the spaceship is sent in search of a "cosmo cleaner" to save humanity.

CNN: The War Mangas

When the Apollo 13 spaceship blew up 200, 000 miles from Earth, astronauts used the moon's gravity to slingshot the capsule back home.

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But if we are going to go there, and dive deep into another Boston season of rage, I would like to take the controls of the Spaceship of Crazy, fly it briefly down to Planet Earth and remind Red Sox fans, so furious about this sub-.500 campaign, that they still don't have a lot to complain about.

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The spaceship Nostromo is hauling a dreary cargo of ore back to Earth when it inadvertently allows an unpleasant intruder on board, and ordinary life becomes a nightmare.

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Sir Richard's intention is to use the spaceship to carry fare-paying passengers on short pleasure rides above the Earth's atmosphere.

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It was Burt's genius idea of turning the spaceship into a giant shuttle car, and for it to come in as a shuttle car into the Earth's atmosphere, that was the breakthrough.

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