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space tourism
[ speys toor-iz-uhm ]
noun
- commercial travel into outer space by members of the general public, as for adventure:
spaceships built for suborbital and orbital space tourism.
Other Word Forms
- space tour·ist noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of space tourism1
Example Sentences
While Monday’s celebrity launch was the nation’s first spaceflight where women filled each seat and “optically looks like progress,” Ratajkowski alleged, the “truth” was that Amazon executive Bezos just wanted to “take his fiancée and a few other famous women to space for space tourism.”
Pop star Katy Perry and five other women are set to blast into space aboard Jeff Bezos' space tourism rocket.
The rise of space tourism has prompted criticism that it is too exclusive and environmentally damaging.
The high cost of space tourism makes it inaccessible to most people, with these expensive missions out of reach for the majority.
In contrast to the growing space tourism industry, such as the orbital movie studio planned to open this December, as well as plans to host the first Michelin star meal in space next year at a cost of nearly half a million dollars per guest, the future of research on how living in space impacts human anatomy is uncertain.
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