mother ship

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Plus, Wintour brought her back to Vogue ahead of the Biden administration to style her first-ever cover of the mother ship magazine, which featured Kamala Harris, then vice president-elect, and brought things full circle.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

What’s Next: The restart of commercial missions with a mother ship and two Delta spaceships opens up the potential for $450 million in annual revenue across 125 flights, analysts at Jefferies said.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

The Jiutian, a hulking mother ship drone designed to release swarms of smaller drones, completed its maiden flight in December, according to state media.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2026

Investigators with the US Coast Guard said it was among the final communications between the Titan and its mother ship before they lost contact for good.

From BBC • Sep. 16, 2024

Then you would launch a smaller manned spacecraft from that mother ship, and the smaller craft would fly to the moon.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson