space vehicle n.
Vehicles
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1928 Giant World in Weird Tales Mar. 393/1
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Ray Cummings
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Mart Gryce and his sister Frannie…voyage to a distant world to rescue Brett Gryce, traveling in a space-vehicle that can go through space and time.
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1930 The Fitzgerald Contraction in Science Wonder Stories Jan. 681/2
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Miles J. Breuer, M.D.
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Or…it might be a space vehicle from a distant planet.
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1947 Letter in Planet Stories Fall 121
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The reduction in mass ratio required for lifting a few tons of space-vehicle into the stratosphere is enormously out of proportion to the amount required for long-distance flights after they break free of the earth’s atmosphere.
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1960 New Worlds Science Fiction Mar. 64
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The proposed space vehicle will employ a plasma pinch propulsion system on its epic journey.
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1977 Wolfhead in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Dec. 122/2
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Charles L. Harness
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I dimly noted that the colonel was looking at the space vehicle through a telescope. He stiffened—then he cried out. ‘Something’s happening up there! The rockets! The rockets are firing! We're too late!’
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2001 Civilians in Asimov’s Science Fiction Aug. 12
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Tom Purdom
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An orbiting space vehicle crewed by members of the Society is now pursuing a transport vehicle belonging to the Fourth International Brigade.
Research requirements
antedating 1928
Earliest cite
Ray Cummings, in Weird Tales.
Research History
Jeff Prucher submitted a 1930 cite from Miles J. Breuer's "The Fitzgerald Contraction".Jesse Sheidlower submitted a 1928 cite from Ray Cummings, and filled out the rest of the entry.
Earliest cite in OED2: 1946; updated to 1930 in OED3.
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