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, noun

Words nearby space tourism

space stage, space station, spacesuit, Space Telescope, space-time, space tourism, space travel, spacewalk, spacewoman, space writer, spacey

How to use space tourism in a sentence

If Blue Origin wants to dominate the space tourism market, now is as good a time as any.
Blue Origin could definitely use more Jeff Bezos in the next decade|Neel Patel|February 4, 2021|MIT Technology Review
That begs the question of whether or not you can sustain a new space company on space tourism alone.
The space tourism we were promised is finally here—sort of|Neel Patel|February 3, 2021|MIT Technology Review
SpaceX has never really billed itself as a space tourism company as aggressively as Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic have.
The space tourism we were promised is finally here—sort of|Neel Patel|February 3, 2021|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.
The 11 biggest space missions of 2021 (and their chances of success)|Neel Patel|January 4, 2021|MIT Technology Review

Now that Crew Dragon is open for business, space tourism for the ultrarich might be poised for a comeback.
SpaceX and NASA officially flew people into space. What’s next?|Charlie Wood|November 18, 2020|Popular-Science