space tourist
Paying rocket passenger
A space tourist is a private citizen who pays to travel to space, as distinguished from professional astronauts employed by government agencies or aerospace companies.
The term emerged in the early 2000s when wealthy individuals began booking seats on spacecraft: The space tourist spent twelve days aboard the International Space Station.
As commercial spaceflight expands, the line between space tourist and astronaut continues to blur.
Curved celestial path
- weightlessnessAbsence of apparent mass
- microgravityExtremely weak gravitational force
- zero-gInformal term for weightlessness
- spacesuitPressurized garment for vacuum
capsule · spacecraft · rocket · launchpad · liftoff · reentry · suborbital · spacewalk
Limited to one group
- eliteSuperior select group
- wealthyHaving abundant financial resources
- billionairePerson worth ten figures
- millionairePerson possessing great wealth
premium · high-end · VIP · private · bespoke · first-class · reservation · booking
Private American spaceflight company
- SpaceXPrivate rocket manufacturer
- ticketEntry permit slip
- seatPlace for sitting
- passengerTraveler, not operator
customer · civilian · private citizen · paying · reservation · waitlist · manifest · flight
Surge of intense excitement
- bucket listPre-death wish inventory
- once-in-a-lifetimeOccurring only one time ever
- pioneeringFirst to explore territory
- frontierEdge of settlement
odyssey · expedition · journey · voyage · experience · milestone · achievement · bragging rights
orbit
Curved celestial path
- weightlessnessAbsence of apparent mass
- microgravityExtremely weak gravitational force
- zero-gInformal term for weightlessness
spacesuit · capsule · spacecraft · rocket · launchpad · liftoff · reentry · suborbital · spacewalk · spaceport
exclusive
Limited to one group
- eliteSuperior select group
- wealthyHaving abundant financial resources
- billionairePerson worth ten figures
millionaire · premium · high-end · VIP · private · bespoke · first-class · reservation · booking · deposit
Blue Origin
Private American spaceflight company
passenger · customer · civilian · private citizen · paying · reservation · waitlist · manifest · flight · trip
thrill
Surge of intense excitement
- bucket listPre-death wish inventory
- once-in-a-lifetimeOccurring only one time ever
- pioneeringFirst to explore territory
frontier · odyssey · expedition · journey · voyage · experience · milestone · achievement · bragging rights · story
- spaceflightlaunch, astronaut, spacecraft, liftoff, orbit
- astronautsastronaut, cosmonaut, taikonaut, cosmonauts, spaceman
- sky watchersstargazer, astronomer, astrophotographer, comet hunter, eclipse chaser
space touristastronaut
Spacecraft crew member
cosmonaut · taikonaut · mission commander · flight engineer · commander
space touriststay-at-home
Not one to travel
homebody · landlubber · local
space, tourist, spaces, spaced, spacing, spacious, spaciousness, spatial, spatially