SPACE TERMS

Launch vehicles and rockets are in roman, initial caps, and carry Roman numerals:

Atlas IV
Saturn V
Nike V

Spacecraft are in roman, initial caps, and carry Arabic numerals:

Apollo 10
Explorer 2
Gemini 8
Mariner 4
Mercury 3
Landsat 1
Surveyor 6
Voyager 1
Pioneer 12

Space shuttles, lunar modules, command modules, etc., that have specific names appear in italic, with initial caps:

space shuttle Discovery
lunar module Eagle
but NASA's Mars exploration rovers Spirit and Opportunity

Related Terms

astronaut (always lowercase)
cosmonaut (always lowercase)
capsule communicator
g, 5 g's, zero g
g-force
g meter
hard landing (noun)
lunarnaut (always lowercase)
lunarscape
lunar rover
lunar vehicle
Mission Commander (before name)
Mission Control
moon bound (en route)
moonbound (confined to)
moonship
outer space (interstellar or intergalactic)
retro-jettison
Skylab
Spacelab
space shuttle
space telescope (Hubble Space Telescope)
T time, T minus 5
transearth
translunar