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A pressurized gamble that bets your life against the vacuum and usually wins.
means A crewed or cargo-carrying vehicle built to travel and survive beyond Earth's atmosphere.
from English fused space and ship in the 1880s, decades before anything flew; sci-fi pulp magazines made the word orbit before rockets did.
Word vs realityCoined roughly 70 years before spaceflight existed.
Thin marginsHull walls separate you from instant fatal vacuum.
Naval rootsWe call space craft ships because oceans came first.