spacefarers
Voyagers beyond atmosphere
Spacefarers are people who travel in space.
The word parallels seafarer, applying the same construction to cosmic rather than oceanic journeys.
It appears more often in science fiction and speculative contexts than in descriptions of actual astronauts: The spacefarers discovered a habitable moon orbiting the gas giant.
Russian orbital traveler
- taikonautChinese space traveler
- EVAActivity outside spacecraft
- spacesuitPressurized garment for vacuum
- NASAFederal space exploration bureau
ESA · ISS · mission · capsule · Soyuz · Apollo · Gemini · Mercury
Settlers in new territory
- settlersThose who establish homes
- trailblazersThose who open territory
- pathfindersThose who discover routes
- foundersThose who begin institutions
homesteaders · terraformers · habitat · outpost · colony · visionaries · adventurers · Gagarin
Extended adventurous journey
- journeyTravel from place to place
- missionPurpose-driven task
- expeditionOrganized exploratory journey
- trekArduous overland journey
navigation · trajectory · launch · departure · destination · waypoint · passage · crossing
Act of finding something
- expeditionOrganized exploratory journey
- frontierEdge of settlement
- probeThorough examination or tool
- roverDrifter or space explorer
mapping · survey · observatory · telescope · satellite · flyby · orbit · reconnaissance
Fictional interstellar vessel
- light-yearsUnits of astronomical distance
- FTLExceeding light speed
- hyperdriveFictional superluminal propulsion
- exoplanetPlanet outside our system
Alpha Centauri · Proxima · cryosleep · relativistic · Dyson sphere · interplanetary · propulsion
cosmonaut
Russian orbital traveler
- taikonautChinese space traveler
- EVAActivity outside spacecraft
- spacesuitPressurized garment for vacuum
NASA · ESA · ISS · mission · capsule · Soyuz · Apollo · Gemini · Mercury · shuttle
colonists
Settlers in new territory
- settlersThose who establish homes
- trailblazersThose who open territory
- pathfindersThose who discover routes
founders · homesteaders · terraformers · habitat · outpost · colony · visionaries · adventurers · Gagarin · Armstrong
odyssey
Extended adventurous journey
- journeyTravel from place to place
- missionPurpose-driven task
- expeditionOrganized exploratory journey
trek · navigation · trajectory · launch · departure · destination · waypoint · passage · crossing · long-duration
discovery
Act of finding something
- expeditionOrganized exploratory journey
- frontierEdge of settlement
- probeThorough examination or tool
rover · mapping · survey · observatory · telescope · satellite · flyby · orbit · reconnaissance · astrobiology
starship
Fictional interstellar vessel
- light-yearsUnits of astronomical distance
- FTLExceeding light speed
- hyperdriveFictional superluminal propulsion
exoplanet · Alpha Centauri · Proxima · cryosleep · relativistic · Dyson sphere · interplanetary · propulsion
- travelerspassenger, travelers, traveler, tourist, vacationers
- astronautsastronaut, cosmonaut, taikonaut, cosmonauts, moonwalker
spacefarersgroundlings
Standing theater audience
landlubbers · earthlings · terrestrials · earthbound · landbound
spacefarersearthbound
Confined to terra firma
landlocked · grounded · homebound · settlers · homebodies