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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Origin of space tourism

First recorded in 1965–70

OTHER WORDS FROM space tourism

space tour·ist, noun

Words nearby space tourism

space shuttle orbiter, space sickness, space stage, space station, space telescope, space tourism, space travel, space writer, space-age, space-bar, space-filler
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