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Spacecraft tend to behave like actual ships floating in water, almost always navigating along the horizontal plane and rarely seen in any other orientation other than "upright", unless they are "sunk". Some works of fiction blur the line between spaceships and oceangoing vessels even further.Though works on the softer side of Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness can justify it with advanced technnologies. Spacecraft even have "lifeboats" - generally called escape pods or something similar - despite the concept being largely impractical in case of realistic space travel.

Good luck finding a Space Schooner or Space Canoe - though they have shown up.

Furthermore, the classes of ships in the Standard Sci-Fi Fleet are usually analogous to classes of waterborne ships, especially those used during World War II: Cruiser, Battleship, Destroyer, Frigate, etc.

In many series, a small spacecraft can even be called a "spaceboat" or "boat", and space-based missiles are in some stories also called "torpedoes".

Spacecraft are often called "spaceships", and sometimes just "ships".

Science Fiction writers frequently use nautical analogies for pretty much everything in space, and fill in the gaps in their own knowledge about spaceflight with details specific to sea travel.

Maybe it's the romance, maybe it's the adventure, maybe it's the obvious parallels to the Age of Exploration, but for some reason, when people write about space, they tend to make parallels to the sea, as President Kennedy (himself a former naval officer) did in his "Space is the new ocean" speech.