Meanings
- uncountableSpace travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes.
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.
1997 July 18, Roger Collis, “Space Tourism:Ready for Liftoff?”, in International Herald Tribune, →ISSNSynonyms: astrotourism
- dateduncountableSightseeing and travel to sites related to the space program.
All of the space tourism has suffered because of a lack of interest in the space program.
1994 July 18, Debbi Land, quotee, “On the Space Nostalgia Frontier in Florida”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSpace travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes.
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 太空旅游, 宇宙觀光 /宇宙观光
- 太空旅游 (tàikōng lǚyóu)form of tourism
- 宇宙觀光 /宇宙观光 (yǔzhòu guānguāng)form of tourism
Finnish avaruusmatkailu
- avaruusmatkailuform of tourism
French tourisme spatial
- tourisme spatialform of tourism
German Weltraumtourismus
- Weltraumtourismusform of tourism
Hungarian űrturizmus
- űrturizmusform of tourism
Japanese 宇宙観光旅行
- 宇宙観光旅行 (uchū kankō ryokō)form of tourism
Korean 우주 관광
- 우주 관광 (uju gwan'gwang)form of tourism
Russian косми́ческий тури́зм
- косми́ческий тури́зм (kosmíčeskij turízm)form of tourism
Spanish turismo espacial
- turismo espacialform of tourism
Swedish rymdturism
- rymdturismform of tourism
Vietnamese du lịch vũ trụ
- du lịch vũ trụform of tourism
Cite this entry
space tourism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/space%20tourism
“space tourism.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/space%20tourism. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “space tourism,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/space%20tourism.
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