space tourism

[ speys toor-iz-uhm ]

noun

1. commercial travel into outer space by members of the general public, as for adventure:

   spaceships built for suborbital and orbital space tourism.

Other Words From

• space tour·ist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of space tourism¹

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

If Blue Origin wants to dominate the space tourism market, now is as good a time as any.

From MIT Technology Review

That begs the question of whether or not you can sustain a new space company on space tourism alone.

From MIT Technology Review

SpaceX has never really billed itself as a space tourism company as aggressively as Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic have.

From MIT Technology Review

The company hopes to use New Shepard to send people into suborbital flights of a few minutes’ duration as a space tourism service.

From MIT Technology Review

Now that Crew Dragon is open for business, space tourism for the ultrarich might be poised for a comeback.

From Popular-Science