spacefaring n.
the action of travelling in space
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1942
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Nelson S. Bond
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None but the most daring do any space-faring In those lethal, whirlagig niches, But spacemen all claim that the Bog is aflame With infinite, fabulous riches.
Ballad of Venus Nell in Planet Stories Spring 60 -
1956
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Poul Anderson
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One good thing about spacefaring, you could set the artificial gravity low and feel almost young again.
Margin of Profit in Astounding Sept. 55/1 -
1959
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A. Bertram Chandler
I like to do my spacefaring in comfort, like a civilized man.
Idol in Fantastic Aug. 58/2 -
1979
Arthur C. Clarke
Into the automatic mines, production plants and zero-gravity assembly systems had gone much of the engineering genius of the human race, painfully acquired during two hundred years of spacefaring.
Fountains of Paradise 155 -
1990
Poul Anderson
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Planetsiders seldom had any notion of the complications in spacefaring.
Inconstant Star in L. Niven et al. Man-Kzin Wars III (1992) . 181
Research requirements
antedating 1942
Earliest cite
N. Bond 'The Ballad of Venus Nell'
Research History
Fred Galvin submitted a 1942 cite for "space-faring" from Nelson Bond's "The Ballad of Venus Nell"Earliest cite in the OED2 was a 1959 cite from Poul Anderson's "Virgin Planet"; updated to the 1942 Nelson Bond quote in OED3.
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