pertaining to or characteristic of the Space Age.
using the latest or most advanced technology or design.
modern; up-to-date; forward-looking.
First recorded in 1955–60
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The designs, including silky dresses and billowing space-age black trousers like those worn by rock star David Bowie in the 1970s, were carefully fitted to the robots' skeletal frames.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
First impressions had me doubting my decision: Unfinished plywood lined the cramped elevator and my room—a snug, white space-age capsule—looked like it had emerged from a 3-D printer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
He plays space-age chess with precision; he moves slowly, steadily, technically.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2025
“I just don’t like them,” she says, describing many as “massive, space-age blobs” in white boucle that don’t fit most spaces.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2025
This is partly due to the space-age technology used to pack them.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
The visionaries of the early Space Age didn’t worry much about solar radiation, coronal mass ejections, galactic cosmic rays, psychological stress from isolation, and cost-benefit ratios.
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2025
This car was part of the new Space Age, when cars were designed to be “out of this world.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025
Musk’s vision of the future is all about bringing AI into the physical world—a Jetsons-style Space Age.
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2025
Decades later, a fragment of that dream has begun to materialize, and residential towers with Space Age names — Evo, Aven, E11even — occupy former parking lots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2024
With those words, on the evening of October 4, 1957, NBC radio announced the start of the Space Age.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
Gurr created the initial design, a “Buck Rogers”-inspired space age vehicle, as Gurr wanted it to feel sleek and ready for liftoff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2025
It was Sputnik that truly ushered in the space age.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2025
In a post today on X, Isaacman expressed his honor at the nomination and states that “this second space age has only just begun.”
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 4, 2024
There was a period, beginning in the 1960s, when the American living room went cheerfully haywire, becoming a showcase for space age and Pop Art design.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2024
Indeed, and rather extraordinarily, we would be well into the space age before anyone could plausibly account for where all the Earth’s old rocks went.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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