Spaceship animation

Now - my next project is to animate the Maya girl.
Before doing that, I'm making a basic study of animation trying to move this spaceship.
I've already done the classic animation from poitn A to point B to point C but actually I think this is just for unanimate models and I want something to animate parts of the models.
Anywaythis is a good start to take confidence with animation commands and it's really cool!!