vacuum-suited adj.
wearing a vacuum suit n.
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1937
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Otto Binder
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‘Archie, for John’s sake, get away—anywhere but there!’ Osgood’s vacuum-suited figure lumbered away from the diamond ’toid, as though he had heard.
Diamond Planetoid in Astounding Stories May 108/2
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1947
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Robert Abernathy
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Two vacuum-suited silhouettes appeared in the lighted airlock and began to clamber down, the first with a self-possessed poise, the other showing signs of a jerky impatience.
Failure on Titan in Planet Stories Winter 57/2 -
1958
Murray Leinster
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There should be jeeps carrying burdens, and the chest lights of vacuum-suited figures moving about.
City on Moon 20
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1989
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Sheila Finch
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After a while, a hatch popped open and a vacuum-suited figure appeared. A ladder unrolled to the grass. Caliban shook its head. ‘I am not encouraged about their intelligence at this point.’ Kory smiled wryly. ‘They’ve decided I’m a vacuum-breathing monster.’
Shaping Dawn xxxi. 241
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2015
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Ann Leckie
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I had not been on the hull of a ship in gate-space since the day twenty years before when I had been separated from myself. [...] This time the ship was Mercy of Kalr, and I was well tethered, and not only vacuum-suited but armored. That armor was, in theory, impenetrable, wasn’t so very different from what shielded a Radchaai military ship. Certainly bullets wouldn’t pierce it.
Ancillary Mercy viii. 132
Research requirements
antedating 1937
Earliest cite
Otto Binder (as "Gordon A. Giles"), in Astounding
Research History
Fred Galvin submitted a 1947 cite from Robert Abernathy's "Failure on Titan".Fred Galvin submitted a cite from An Ace Double reprint of Murray Leinster's 1957 "City on the Moon".
Bee Ostrowsky submitted a 1937 cite from Otto Binder, writing as "Gordon A. Giles".
Bee Ostrowsky submitted a 1989 cite from Sheila Finch.
Bee Ostrowsky submitted a 2015 cite from Ann Leckie.
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