spacefaring
See also: space-faring
English
Etymology
space + faring, by analogy with seafaring.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈspeɪsfæɹɪŋ/
Adjective
spacefaring (not comparable)
- Engaged in the building and launching of vehicles into space.
- 1985, Krafft Ehricke, Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century, Lunar and Planetary Institute,, →ISBN, page 830:
- If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, He would have given man a moon.
- 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, OCLC 246633669, PC, scene: Rachni Codex entry:
- 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.
- December 13 2021, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger and Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time Magazine:
- His startup rocket company, SpaceX, has leapfrogged Boeing and others to own America’s spacefaring future.
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Noun
spacefaring (uncountable)
- (The practice of) spaceflight.