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Outer space   /ˈaʊtər speɪs/   Listen
Outer space

noun
1.
Any location outside the Earth's atmosphere.  Synonym: space.  "The first major milestone in space exploration was in 1957, when the USSR's Sputnik 1 orbited the Earth"






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"Outer space" Quotes from Famous Books



... it, into some region or some set of conditions where the risks were great, yet unintelligible to us; where the frontiers of some unknown world lay close about us. It was a spot held by the dwellers in some outer space, a sort of peephole whence they could spy upon the earth, themselves unseen, a point where the veil between had worn a little thin. As the final result of too long a sojourn here, we should be carried over the border and deprived of what we called ...
— Famous Modern Ghost Stories • Various



Words linked to "Outer space" :   location, interstellar space, deep space, infinite, aerospace, interplanetary space, intergalactic space



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