space vehicle n.
Vehicles
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1928
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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.
Giant World in Weird Tales Mar. 393/1 -
1930
Miles J. Breuer, M.D.
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Or…it might be a space vehicle from a distant planet.
Fitzgerald Contraction in Science Wonder Stories Jan. 681/2 -
1947
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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.
Letter in Planet Stories Fall 121 -
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
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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!’
Wolfhead in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Dec. 122/2 -
2001
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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.
Civilians in Asimov’s Science Fiction Aug. 12
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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