skill or experience in piloting a spacecraft
By masterly spacemanship, the Moonmaiden captain secured the derelict and brought her safely to Earth.
So consummate had been Loring’s spacemanship that the scout did not even roll.
Haven’t you even pored over the charts of this region so as to know what difficulties in spacemanship you might encounter?
Rab Quobba and little Tammas stayed when Wilson had gone, and Hammond plied them with eager questions about the spacemanship of this age.
I have passed several more of the asteroids—irregular fragments, little larger than meteoric stones; and all my skill of spacemanship had been taxed severely to avert collision.
Insurance rates on pilots and ships required by Space Code were high, and there was always the human element of error in spacemanship.
Then his mind would wander a bit and Scyth would chuckle quietly over something entirely removed from spacemanship.
This is poor spacemanship. The sail must always be in such a position as to hold the wires taut.
Mr. Glengarth, I respect your spacemanship, and I know we can’t afford to quarrel. But…. Get us back into quantum wave propulsion, or tell me why not.
How she [sc. the Paine] had been able to sail here, how she resisted the pull of the black hole in order to perform this all-but impossible feat, nobody knew, but it spoke of superb spacemanship and an instinct for the multiverse only a few possessed.
antedating 1932
George Beattie, in Wonder Stories
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