SPACE TRAVEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does space travel mean? 

• SPACE TRAVEL (noun)
  The noun SPACE TRAVEL has 1 sense:

1. a voyage outside the Earth's atmosphere

  Familiarity information: SPACE TRAVEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPACE TRAVEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A voyage outside the Earth's atmosphere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

space travel; spacefaring; spaceflight

Hypernyms ("space travel" is a kind of...):

voyage (a journey to some distant place)

Domain member category:

gravity-assist ((spaceflight) a trajectory that passes close to a planetary body in order to gain energy from its gravitational field)

 Context examples 

The company hopes to reduce the cost of future space travel by developing a dependable system of retrieving and reusing launch rockets for future missions.

(SpaceX Completes Successful Rocket Launch, VOA News)