Magellan Models wooden model spacecraft collection includes replicas of a specific craft or machine designed for spaceflight. Our wooden spacecraft models represent sub-orbital spaceflight vehicles, i.e., a spacecraft that enters space then returns to the Earth. For an orbital spaceflight, a spacecraft enters a closed orbit around the planetary body. Spacecraft used for human spaceflight carry people on board as crew or passengers.

Spacecraft used for robotic space missions operate either autonomously or telerobotically. Robotic spacecraft that leave the vicinity of the planetary body are space probes. Robotic spacecraft that remain in orbit around the planetary body are artificial satellites.