During the beginning era of first space flight the ancient races uses solar wind powered space ships that had space solar wind turbine propellers attached to the craft to help power the ships out in space.

 

The turbine propellers would collect the cosmic energies coming from the solar winds to make the ships move in space.

 

Ancient space ships had lithium engines that were slow in the beginning, there were no crystalline powered warp drive engines like on modern space ships.