Daedalus (disambiguation)
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Daedalus was a skillful craftsman and artisan in Greek mythology.
Daedalus may also refer to:
Astronomy and space
- Daedalus (crater), a crater on the far side of the Moon
- 1864 Daedalus, an asteroid
- COROT-7c or Daedalus, an extrasolar planet
- Daedalus Patera, volcanic depression on Io
Engineering
- Project Daedalus, an interstellar spaceship project by the British Interplanetary Society conducted between 1973 and 1978
- MIT Daedalus, a human-powered aircraft
Publications
- Daedalus (journal), the quarterly journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Daedalus Publishing, an American publisher
- Dedalus Books, a British publisher
Military
- HMS Daedalus (1826), a nineteenth-century fifth-rate Royal Navy frigate
- RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus), a (now closed) Royal Naval air station near Portsmouth, England
- Daedalus, RAF Cranwell, the Royal Naval air station in Lincolnshire, England
- The Order of Daedalians, a fraternal and professional order of American military pilots
Fictional characters and objects
- Daedalus (Ariadne), a fictional inventor created by New Scientist columnist David E. H. Jones
- Deadalus (comics), a fictional supervillain that appears in the NEW-GEN comic books
- Daedalus class starship, in the Star Trek series
- Daedalus class battlecruiser, in the Stargate series
- Dedalus Diggle, a member of the Order of The Phoenix, in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Stephen Dedalus, the main character in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, as well as an important character in Joyce's Ulysses
- Daedalus Yumeno, a character in the 2006 anime Ergo Proxy
- Daedalus, an AI in the 2000 computer game Deus Ex
- Space Shuttle Deadalus, featured in the 2000 film "Space Cowboys".
Creative works
- "Daedalus" (Star Trek: Enterprise), a 2005 episode of Star Trek: Enterprise
- Daedalus (novel), a 2003 Star Trek: Enterprise novel
- Daedalus's Children, the 2004 sequel novel to Daedalus
- "Daedalus", a song by Thrice, from the album The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV
- The Daedalus Encounter, a 1995 interactive movie puzzle adventure starring Tia Carrere for the 3DO gaming system
People
- Daedelus (musician) (born 1977), a musician who mixes IDM-style rhythms with arrangements from the 1930s and 1940s
- Daedalus Howell (born 1972), an American author, filmmaker and media personality
Other
- The Daedalus Project, an MMORPG research project by Nick Yee
- Daedalus (band), an Italian progressive metal band
- Daedalus (yacht), a trimaran, also named Enza
- Daedalus (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the 1794 Epsom Derby
- Daedalus (trace fossil), an ichnogenus
- Daedalus Reef, a reef between Egypt and Saudi Arabia, in the center of the Red Sea
See also
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