spaceworthy
adjEtymology From space + -worthy, after roadworthy etc.
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Suitable for a launch into, or travel through, space.
- NASA has set Sept. 11, 2008, as the target date for launching a mission intended to revitalize the telescope and keep it spaceworthy into the next decade, according to a planning document made public by nasawatch.com, an independent Web site.2007 January 11, Dennis Overbye, “NASA Schedules Flight to Update Space Telescope”, in New York Times:
- Derived terms
- spaceworthiness, unspaceworthy