space vessel n.

= spaceship n.

Vehicles

  • 1929 C. W. Harris & M. J. Breuer Baby on Neptune in Amazing Stories Dec. 798/2 page image Miles J. Breuer, M.D. Clare Winger Harris bibliography

    Corrigan moved the space-vessel close to the scene of the tragedy, gradually, with the aid of the infra-red screen.

  • 1932 T. D. Gardner Last Woman in Wonder Stories Apr. 1240/1 page image Thomas S. Gardner bibliography

    You mentioned the exploration of your Moon, Historian Z11, what type of space vessel was used? No space vessels reached Venus until the fortieth century.

  • 1935 L. Manning World of Mist in Wonder Stories Oct. 617/2 page image Laurence Manning bibliography

    On I walked, but when I turned around to look, I could see the high rim of the ‘ocean’ in the distance and the little dot that was our space-vessel.

  • 1950 R. F. Jones Tools of the Trade in Astounding Science Fiction Nov. 60/2 page image Raymond F. Jones bibliography

    Direct appeal to the foreign commissioners was, of course, useless. They might retreat from their kibitzing, but they would put Earth down as an unfriendly planet of sub-sentient life on which it was not safe to have a space vessel repaired.

  • 1953 ‘J. J. Ferrat’ Nightmare Tower in Fantastic Universe June–July 23/1 page image Sam Merwin, Jr. bibliography

    She looked around but failed to see his tall figure and saturnine face—treacherous face, she thought—among the half-dozen passengers already reclining in plastolounges, watching the amazing panorama projected on the ceiling from the viewplate recorders in the prow and stern of the huge space-vessel.

  • 1956 ‘L. G. Spencer’ Beast with 7 Tails in Amazing Stories Aug. 10/1 page image Robert Silverberg Randall Garrett bibliography

    Guided by far-reaching, complex interstellar webs of subradio beams, the space vessel moved unerringly toward its destination.

  • 1959 S. Palmer Derelict in Fantastic Universe Mar. 80/1 page image Stuart Palmer (1905-1968) bibliography

    Captain Ogg-Ogg never left the observation bridge after the first sighting of the alien space-vessel, his vast, ursine bulk crowding the navigators and technicians rather annoyingly.

  • 1973 The Asutra in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May iv. 48/2 page image Jack Vance bibliography

    Do any of the Earth-worlds build space vessels in the shape of black globes?

  • 1992 B. Searles On Books in Asimov’s Science Fiction 173/1 page image Baird Searles

    Here are spaceships galore, abristle with turrets, antennae, and all those things that extrude from space vessels these days.

  • 2015 D. Bara Impulse viii. 84 page image Dave Bara bibliography

    A ship with a functioning Hoagland Field provided equal protection to all areas of a space vessel, making the location of the bridge a style decision.


Research requirements

antedating 1929

Earliest cite

Clare Winger Harris and Miles J. Breuer, M.D., 'A Baby on Neptune'

Research History
Fred Galvin submitted a 1954 cite from an unattributed feature in Vargo Statten Science Fiction Magazine.
Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1950 reprint of Clare Winger Harris and Miles J. Breuer, M.D.'s "A Baby on Neptune"; Jeff Prucher verified it in the 1929 first appearance.
Fred Galvin submitted a 1935 cite from Alexander M. Phillips' "Martian Gesture".
Fred Galvin submitted a 1959 cite from Stuart Palmer's "Derelict".
Fred Galvin submitted a 1932 cite from Thomas D. Gardner's "The Last Woman".
Fred Galvin submitted a 1935 cite from Laurence Manning's "World of the Mist".
Fred Galvin submitted a 1939 cite from John Russell Fearn's "Thoughts That Kill".
Fred Galvin submitted a 1953 cite from Jacques Jean Ferrat's "Nightmare Tower".
Fred Galvin submitted a 1950 cite from Raymond F. Jones's "Tools of the Trade".
Fred Galvin submitted a 1953 cite from H. B. Fyfe's "Fast Passage".
Fred Galvin submitted a 1951 cite from Poul Anderson's "Interloper".

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