space navigator n.
one who navigates a spaceship; = astrogator n.
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1929
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The cover picture of one of your recent issues…showed us space navigators securely clad in heavy furs.
Coldness in Empty Interstellar Space in Amazing Stories May 185 (letter) -
1930
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Gawain Edwards
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He called the explorers in, the mechanics and engineers, the space-navigators and the rocket-experts.
Rescue from Jupiter in Wonder Stories Feb. 778/1 -
1941
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John Russell Fearn
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I ken one thing, sir—ye're not much o' a space navigator.
Cosmic Derelict in Planet Stories 62/2 -
1951
Arthur C. Clarke
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His position is, clearly, only one of the things a space-navigator would want to know.
Exploration of Space 82 -
1964
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Jack Sharkey
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Overhead, the cold white stars lay across the dome of dark emerald night sky in unfamiliar configurations. A good space navigator might be able to divine his probable locale from those stars, taking magnitude- and location-variables into three-dimensional account.
Venus Charm in Fantastic 106/2 -
1974
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John Sladek
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Conventional archaeologists have tried to explain away a remarkable cave drawing…. The drawing can only be a space navigator taking bearings on a wooly [sic] mammoth.
Space Shoes of the Gods in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Nov. 56/2 -
1997
Anne McCaffrey
Margaret Ball
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That, she considered, was the price she paid for the money that had put her through nav training…. She couldn’t actually work as a space navigator; that would be beneath her family’s status.
Acorna (2001) 380
Research requirements
antedating 1929
Earliest cite
Han Kunitz, in a letter to Amazing Stories
Research History
Jeff Prucher submitted a 1930 cite from Gawain Edwards' "A Rescue from Jupiter". Earliest cite in OED2: 1936; updated to 1930 in OED3.
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