space tourism

English

Noun

space tourism (uncountable)

1. Space travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes.
   • 1997 July 18, Roger Collis, “Space Tourism:Ready for Liftoff?”, in International Herald Tribune‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Don't pack your bags yet. But serious people in the aerospace and travel industry are taking the idea of space tourism seriously. Pundits predict that the first space tourists could be in orbit by 2005.

2. (dated) Sightseeing and travel to sites related to the space program.
   • 1994 July 18, Debbi Land, quotee, “On the Space Nostalgia Frontier in Florida”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     All of the space tourism has suffered because of a lack of interest in the space program.

Synonyms

• astrotourism

Derived terms

• space tourist

Translations

form of tourism

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 太空旅游 (tàikōng lǚyóu), 宇宙觀光／宇宙观光 (yǔzhòu guānguāng)

• Finnish: avaruusmatkailu
• French: tourisme spatial (fr) m
• German: Weltraumtourismus (de) m
• Hungarian: űrturizmus
• Japanese: 宇宙観光旅行 (うちゅうかんこうりょこう, uchū kankō ryokō)
• Korean: 우주 관광(宇宙觀光) (uju gwan'gwang)
• Mongolian: сансрын жуулчлал (sansryn žuulčlal)
• Russian: косми́ческий тури́зм m (kosmíčeskij turízm)
• Spanish: turismo espacial m
• Vietnamese: du lịch vũ trụ

Anagrams

• pescatourism