The Moonraker is a fictional space shuttle featured in the eleventh Bond film, Moonraker. In the film, "Moonraker" is a brand name applied to a space shuttle orbiter design, built by Drax Industries for NASA. Though the actual Space Shuttle had not flown by the time Moonraker was released in 1979, the Drax Moonraker is identical in design. These were named Moonraker 1-6.
The film begins with the hijacking of a Drax Industries Moonraker in mid-air. The shuttle had been en route to the United Kingdom when the hijackers struck, igniting the shuttle's engines and destroying the 747 carrying it. During the course of the film it is revealed that the British Moonraker's theft was orchestrated by billionarire industrialist Hugo Drax because one of his original fleet developed a last minute technical malfunction. The Moonraker shuttles were being used by Drax to ferry crew and equipment to his secret space station. From here Drax pla