Others are imbued with a rag-tag appeal of underdog pluckiness that perfectly embodies the crews that man them.

Some of the best spaceships audiences have seen in recent years came from 2021s sci-fi sensationDune.

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A blockbuster sci-fi phenomenon,Dunefeatured plenty of spectacular spaceships.

Battlestar Galactica, USS Enterprise from Star Trek, and Millennium Falcon from Star Wars

The ships ring-like structure which rotated allowed for the crew to be grounded by artificial gravity.

Clearly inspired by popular UFO imagery, the ship resembled a flying saucer.

More importantly, though, it served as the home of the Robinsons and B-9.

A Space Guild Heighliner ship travels through space in near the blue glow of a planet.

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One aspect of the ship few viewers could ever forget was itshaunting A.I.

control system HAL 9000. single-handedly transforms the ship from a mighty safe harbor to a dreadful, cosmic nightmare.

Serving as that setting was the U.S.C.S.S.

The alien mothership hovers above the slums in Johannesburg in ‘District 9’.

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Nostromo, a commercial spacecraft owned by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation and serving as a freighter in deep space.

The spaceship Endurance travels towards a planet on the brink of a black hole in ‘Interstellar’ (2014).

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The Robinsons spaceship Jupiter 2 glides over rocky terrain in ‘Lost in Space’

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A large spaceship floats in deep space.

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A frigate Martian ship powers its way across the cosmos.

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Heart of Gold

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A pod exits the Discovery One spaceship.

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A small spaceship glides past a large planet in Firefly

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A large space freighter nears a mysterious moon.

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