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- noun A
commercial spacecraft that carriespassengers .
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Examples
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The invitation eventually turned up on her doorstep, but Weaver admits she chose to decline the offer because the sci-fi icon, who famously battled extraterrestrials in space as Lieutenant Ellen Ripley in the horror franchise, didn't want to scare other passengers on the Virgin Galactic 'spaceliner'.
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The invitation eventually turned up on her doorstep, but Weaver admits she chose to decline the offer because the sci-fi icon, who famously battled extraterrestrials in space as Lieutenant Ellen Ripley in the horror franchise, didn't want to scare other passengers on the Virgin Galactic 'spaceliner'.
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Anyway he was back Matt, not Gordon for yesterday's Doctor Who special, a beautifully inventive reworking of A Christmas Carol featuring Michael Gambon as Kazran Sardick, the heartless kingpin of a Dickensian otherworld refusing to help a doomed huge spaceliner full of passengers stranded in one of his clouds.
Rewind TV: Doctor Who; The Nativity; Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express; Come Fly With Me 2010
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Loo and her older sister P'heng are on their way to a big science academy when their intergalactic spaceliner malfunctions.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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Loo and her older sister P'heng are on their way to a big science academy when their intergalactic spaceliner malfunctions.
Book Review: Little White Mouse, with Comments on Women in Comics 2007
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Being married, and serving on the same spaceliner together, entitled us to that extra 103 square feet of living space.
365 tomorrows » 2007 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007
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Having axed the X-33, a single-stage-to-orbit spaceliner that was supposed to replace the shuttle, in 2001, NASA is encouraging entrepreneurs to take up the slack.
Up, Up And Ka-Ching! 2008
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Starck is a founder astronaut for one of the first hundred commercial seats onboard Virgin Galacticâs suborbital spaceliner.
Boing Boing: December 11, 2005 - December 17, 2005 Archives 2005
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Or, with the aid of the music in this album, we can drift into the future's lovemist with Les Baxter and make a spaceliner escapade by earthlight, tongue safely fastened in cheek.
Week 64: Space Escapade HTMPL Prod. 2006
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The Vulcan -- that was the big spaceliner that was sailing tonight for Jupiter, with stops at Mars and Earth.
Hell Wings Over Manhattan Adams, Stephen 2004
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