space tourism
[ speys-toor-iz-uhm ]
/ ˈspeɪs ˌtʊər ɪz əm /
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noun
commercial travel into outer space by members of the general public, as for adventure: spaceships built for suborbital and orbital space tourism.
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Origin of space tourism
First recorded in 1965–70
OTHER WORDS FROM space tourism
space tour·ist, nounWords nearby space tourism
space stage, space station, spacesuit, Space Telescope, space-time, space tourism, space travel, spacewalk, spacewoman, space writer, spacey
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