List of actual spaceship names

On this website we have random name generators that are meant to inspire writers & roleplayers in their projects, generators like:

• Random Spaceship Name Generator
• Privateer Spaceship Name Generator
• Random Planet Name Generator

The Random Spaceship Name Generator shows a list of actual spaceship & ship names from history, as well as showing words that would make great spaceship names.

But we thought it might be interesting to include the list of every actual manned spaceship here too. So here’s a list of every spaceship that’s ever carried an astronaut into orbit:

• Vostok (USSR 1961)
• Mercury (US, 1961)
• Voskhod (USSR, 1964)
• Gemini (US, 1965)
• Soyuz (USSR/Russia, 1967)
• Apollo/Lunar Module (US, 1968)
• Enterprise - Space Shuttle (US, 1977)
• Columbia - Space Shuttle (US, 1981)
• Challenger - Space Shuttle (US, 1983)
• Discovery - Space Shuttle (US, 1984)
• Atlantis - Space Shuttle (US, 1985)
• Shenzhou (China, 2003)
• Crew Dragon (US, 2020)