space pilot n.
a pilot of a spaceship
SF Encyclopedia
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1932 Invaders from the Infinite in Amazing Stories Quarterly Spring 148/1
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John W. Campbell, Jr.
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The change from the energy-less, flavored pastes that made up the principal bulk of a space-pilot’s diet, to prevent over-eating, when no energy was used in walking in the weightless ship, was indeed a welcome change.
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1937 The Cavern of the Shining Pool in Thrilling Wonder Stories Oct. 73/1
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Arthur Leo Zagat
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As a space pilot I should have been familiar with apparent changes of direction, deceptively due to misinterpretation of changes in acceleration, in rate of motion, by the monitors in our nervous system.
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1939 Mutineers of Space in Dynamic Science Stories Feb. 77/1
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Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
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My name is Jones—Walter Jones. Second-class space pilot just out of training school.
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1941 The Purple Light in Astounding Science Fiction June 121/1
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Theodore Sturgeon
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I shouldn’t, being a mere space pilot, have tried to think I was an atomic physicist.
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1953 Instant of Now in Fantastic Universe Aug.–Sept. 87/1
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Irving E. Cox, Jr.
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When I've passed enough university hours I can take the promotional test and become a full-fledged space-pilot.
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1964 Unteleported Man in Fantastic Stories Dec. 12/2
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Philip K. Dick
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No matter how long the Lies Incorporated professional and ultra-veteran space-pilot kept the huge liner the Omphalos lost between planets, the components would be ‘held up unavoidably’.
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1980 Fangoria (#9) Nov. 64/1
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A test-tube baby is raised by the government to serve as a lower-echelon space pilot.
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2015 Starburst (#417) Oct. 41
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Why Parker is driving a car into space when Alan is a qualified space pilot is beyond us.
Research requirements
antedating 1932
Earliest cite
John W. Campbell,Jr, 'Invaders From the Infinite'
Research History
Mike Christie submitted a 1941 cite from E. Waldo Hunter's "The Purple Light".Fred Galvin submitted a 1939 cite from Lloyd Arthur Eshbach's "Mutineers of Space"
Fred Galvin submitted a 1937 cite from Arthur Leo Zagat's "The Cavern of the Shining Pool"
Fred Galvin submitted a 1932 cite from John W. Campbell Jr.'s "Invaders of the Infinite".
Earliest cite in OED2: 1944; updated to the 1932 Campbell cite for OED3.
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