space travelling n.
travelling through outer space
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1928 Letter in Amazing Stories Mar. 1215
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I especially like such stories as those that deal with space-traveling, because I believe that some time in the near future that is what we will be doing.
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1931 Islands of Space in Amazing Stories Quarterly Spring
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John W. Campbell, Jr.
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The strange, weightless sensation of space-traveling makes it very hard to recognize normally familiar sensations.
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1940 When New York Vanished in Startling Stories Mar. 26/2
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Henry Kuttner
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Space traveling, via rocket, isnβt a cinch, despite the centuries of study and experiment engineers have devoted to the problem.
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1950 Pillows in Thrilling Wonder Stories June 135/1
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Margaret St. Clair
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Ten days later they landed on Eschatonβa routine landing, but interesting to Kent, who had done little space traveling.
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2002 I'm Working on That 38
Simply by doing some high-speed space traveling, we will have flung ourselves years into the future.
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