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Conestoga

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Conestoga originally referred to the Conestoga people, an English name for the Susquehannock people of Pennsylvania.

Places
Vehicles
  • Conestoga wagon, a covered horse-drawn wagon
  • Conestoga (truck), a truck or truck trailer equipped with a soft roof and sides supported by a removable frame designed to protect cargo during transport similar to a closed truck while allowing by removal of the roof and sides for loading by forklift or crane, so named due to the resemblance to a Conestoga wagon.
  • Conestoga (rocket), the world's first privately funded commercial rocket, produced from Minuteman I stages
  • Conestoga (ship), a wrecked steamship in the Thousand Islands which is a popular Scuba diving site
  • C-93 Conestoga, a cargo aircraft
  • AL-60C-5 Conestoga, a variant of the Aermacchi AL.60 utility aircraft
Education
In fiction
  • In Star Trek, the USS Conestoga is a starship used in the failed first attempt at deep space colonization
  • In Aliens (1986), the ship class of the spaceship USS Sulaco
  • In the video game Outpost 2, the name of a starship presented in the game
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