Meanings
- not comparableEngaged in the building and launching of vehicles into space.
If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, He would have given man a moon.
1985, Krafft Ehricke, Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century, Lunar and Planetary Institute,, →ISBN, page 8302 more examples
Though now extinct, the rachni once threatened every species in Citadel space. Over 2000 years ago, explorers foolishly opened a mass relay to a previously-unknown system and encountered something never seen before or since: a species of spacefaring insects guided by a hive-mind intelligence.
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Rachni Codex entryHis startup rocket company, SpaceX, has leapfrogged Boeing and others to own America’s spacefaring future.
December 13 2021, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time Magazine, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2021
- uncountableThe practice ofspaceflight.
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From space + faring, by analogy with seafaring.
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