mother ship

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There, Roy Neary, played by Richard Dreyfuss, is invited into the mother ship to travel with them into space.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

Companies sell decoys, which trail planes or ships, sometimes looking like a missile, and emit signals to confuse adversaries into targeting it instead of its mother ship.

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Ukraine, which has its own mother ship drones, is trying to regain the edge.

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

From Literature