Editing Outer space (section)

== Terminology ==
The use of the short version ''space'', as meaning "the region beyond Earth's sky", predates the use of full term "outer space", with the earliest recorded use of this meaning in an epic poem by [[John Milton]] called ''[[Paradise Lost]]'', published in 1667.<ref name=harper2001/><ref name=Brady2007/>

The term ''outward space'' existed in a poem from 1842 by the English poet Lady [[Emmeline Stuart-Wortley]] called "The Maiden of Moscow",{{sfn|Stuart Wortley|1841|p=410}} but in astronomy the term ''outer space'' found its application for the first time in 1845 by [[Alexander von Humboldt]].{{sfn|Von Humboldt|1845|p=39}} The term was eventually popularized through the writings of [[H.&nbsp;G.&nbsp;Wells]] after 1901.<ref name="entymonline"/> [[Theodore von Kármán]] used the term of ''free space'' to name the space of altitudes above Earth where spacecrafts reach conditions sufficiently free from atmospheric drag, differentiating it from [[airspace]], identifying a legal space above territories free from the [[sovereign]] jurisdiction of countries.<ref name="Betz"/>

"[[:wikt:spaceborne|Spaceborne]]" denotes existing in outer space, especially if carried by a spacecraft;<ref name="Merriam-Webster 2022"/><ref name="Fall Cao Hong Eymard 2022"/> similarly, "[[:wikt:space-based|space-based]]" means based in outer space or on a planet or moon.<ref name=based/>