space age

1. 1.

   the age beginning with the first space travel; from 1957 to the present

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Questions about space age

What does space age mean?

space age means "the age beginning with the first space travel; from 1957 to the present".

Is space age a common word?

space age is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.