spacelore

See also: space-lore

English

Alternative forms

• space-lore

Etymology

From space +‎ lore.

Noun

spacelore (uncountable)

1. The teaching, knowledge, study, or science of (outer) space.
   • 1997, R. Eric Boglin, The Hercules War, published 2002:

     Beasts such as the whalawk and the sporm have been part of spacelore for generations and, unfortunately, it's true the whalawk is a 50 meter long, 30 ton flying horror with a ten meter wide mouth studded with multiple rows of razor sharp, three decimeter long teeth.

   • 2001, Rex Hall, David J. Shayler, The Rocket Men:

     At the Cape, this event became part of spacelore, and is remembered as "the day they launched the escape tower'.

   • 2014, Dallas McCord Reynolds, Ultima Thule:

     They leaned back in the acceleration chairs before the ship's controls and Ronny listened to the other's spacelore.

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