Definition of "space writer" []

• A writer, such as a journalist, who is paid according to the amount of space his or her material occupies in print. (noun)

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• "Subsequently, in 2002, NASA commissioned distinguished space writer and veteran UFO debunker James Oberg to write a 30,000-word monograph refuting the notion that the Apollo program was a hoax."