space tourist

English

Noun

space tourist (plural space tourists)

  1. One who takes part in space tourism.
    Synonym: astrotourist
    • 1997 July 18, Roger Collis, “Space Tourism:Ready for Liftoff?”, in International Herald Tribune‎, →ISSN:
      Pundits predict that the first space tourists could be in orbit by 2005.
    • 2021 July 20, Francesca Street, “First space tourist Dennis Tito: ‘It was the greatest moment of my life’”, in CNN Travel‎:
      On April 30, 2001, US millionaire Dennis Tito arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) via a Russian Soyuz rocket, becoming the world’s first space tourist.
    • 2022 April 10, “Millionaire space tourists welcomed aboard space station after paying $55m each”, in Sky News‎:
      Every visitor has a full state of experiments to conduct during their stay - which is partly why they don't like being called space tourists.
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