Overview
A term starship is typically applied merely to ballistic capsule capable of transporting people.

The space suit has at times been known as the miniature space vehicle or even starship, emphasizing its purpose of keeping its wearer alive when traveling in the vacuum of outer space.

A space vehicle is one of a primal elements around science fiction. Many short stories and novels are built higher in various ideas for ballistic capsule. Occasionally hard science fiction books focus on a technical details of the craft, when others address the space vehicle as a presumption & delve little into its actual implementation.

Examples of past or existing spacecraft
Apollo Cassini-Huygens Cluster Deep Space 1 Genesis International Space Station Mars Exploration Rover Mars Global Surveyor Mars Pathfinder Mir Pioneer 10 Pioneer 11 Progress Shuttle Buran Shenzhou Space Shuttle SOHO Soyuz spacecraft SpaceShipOne Stardust Viking 1 Viking 2 Voskhod spacecraft Vostok spacecraft Voyager 1 Voyager 2 WMAP

Proposed spacecraft
Crew Exploration Vehicle Kliper Ansari X Prize (incl. the listings of space vehicle within various stages of completion when of 2005)

A US Space Command, according to its "Long Range Plan", is presently planning to acquire the weaponized starship, which has however to exist as announced.[http://www.fas.org/spp/military/docops/usspac/]