space-borne adj.
travelling or carried through space; also, carried out in space or by means of instruments in space
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1924 in Yarmouth Independent 1 Nov. 6/5
The path of flashing meteor/From realms of star space borne.
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1948 Amoeba 'Roid in Amazing Stories July 146/2
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Henry Bott
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As soon as the Tellus 243 was space[-]borne, the two of them put on their suits again, and opened the vent.
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1950 Shadow on the Sand in Thrilling Wonder Stories Oct. 26/2
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John D. MacDonald
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And just in case we fail I suggest that we contact the A-list of all League personnel and advise them to ready themselves for basic flight procedure. We have statistically determined that even with maximum efficiency, one in ten on the A-list will be spaceborn [sic] in time but I feel that this is a necessary move.
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1952 Be Fruitful and Multiply in Space Science Fiction Nov. 56/1
Michael Shaara
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Three intelligent races had already been discovered. Not yet advanced, but capable of advancing. Eventually there would be found a space-borne civilization on a level with Man. And Man would have to be ready.
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1960 High Crusade (1982) xiii. 77
Poul Anderson
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Even though his information about us, our powers, and our possible spaceborne reinforcements was scanty, I think Huruga should have ordered the heavy wagons onward.
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1972 Darkover Landfall vi. 68
Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Although eventually it may be possible to become spaceborne, with our current personnel and materials, we cannot make repairs at all.
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1979 Once & Future Moon in O. Davis Omni Book of Space 210
The moon in the near future could become a source of materials to build humanity’s first spaceborne civilization.
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1983 Thendara House (1991) iv. 71
Marion Zimmer Bradley
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One of the Big Ships was there, a ground crew crawling over it, servicing the spaceborne monster which had come here…because Darkover was a convenient way station on the way to somewhere else.
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1988 2061: Odyssey Three 68
Arthur C. Clarke
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Considering the rush to get Universe spaceborne, it was surprising that such a good job had been done on something so spectacularly non-essential.
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1999 Operation Luna xlviii. 305
Poul Anderson
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Val had blurted an account of herself after she was spaceborne.
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2004 Pandora’s Star xiv. 432
Peter F. Hamilton
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And each of the gas-giant Trojan points, with their broad cluster of medium-sized planetoids, accommodated thriving spaceborne societies.
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2005 Algebraist i. 37
Iain M. Banks
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Sal had let the flier slip four hundred metres or so into the shadows under the intact forward portion of the hull—climbing gently all the time, following the mangled, buckled floors and collapsed bulkheads forming the terrain beneath them—until they could see only the slimmest sliver of violet, star-spattered sky outside and felt they ought to be safe from whatever spaceborne craft—presumably a Beyonder—had been attacking anything that moved or had recently been moving on the surface.
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Research History
Fred Galvin submitted a 1952 cite from Michael Shaara's "Be Fruitful and Multiply".Fred Galvin submitted a 1950 cite, that used the spelling "spaceborn", from John D. MacDonald's "Shadow on the Sand".
Jesse Sheidlower submitted a 1948 cite from Amazing Stories.
Simon Koppel submitted a 1924 cite from a newspaper database.
Earliest cite in OED2: 1953. Updated to 1952 in OED Online.
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