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space tourism

[ speys toor-iz-uhm ]
/ ˈspeɪs ˌtʊər ɪz əm /

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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Nearby words

  1. space shuttle orbiter,
  2. space sickness,
  3. space stage,
  4. space station,
  5. space telescope,
  6. space travel,
  7. space writer,
  8. space-age,
  9. space-bar,
  10. space-filler

Origin of space tourism

First recorded in 1965–70
Related formsspace tour·ist, noun
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019