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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



... are," she said. "How can I know what the ends of the Institute are when they're using such means as you? Mutant or android or"—she caught her breath—"or actually a creature from outer space, the stars. Simon ...
— The Sensitive Man • Poul William Anderson

... 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

... something and he did shoot at something, but no matter how thoroughly you investigate the incident that something can never be positively identified. It might have been a hallucination or it might have been some vehicle from outer space; no one will ever know. ...
— The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects • Edward Ruppelt

... come from outer space. They're meteorites, which are rock fragments. Every day, hundreds of millions of them enter the earth's atmosphere. Most of them, however, are burned up by the heat from air friction and never reach ...
— Let's collect rocks & shells • Shell Oil Company

... movements and currents flow toward different parts of the human body, in the most varied manner. The most important of these currents approach the lotus flowers, pass through them and their separate petals, and thence direct their course outward, pouring themselves into outer space in the form of rays. The more developed a person is, the greater will be the circumference around him in which these rays become discernible. This centre near the heart is not, however, formed at the very beginning, under correct training. ...
— An Outline of Occult Science • Rudolf Steiner



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