(of a person) born in space, rather than on a planet
You are space-born, Ardath. You cannot quite realize that only on a planet can a man find a home.
It was the space-born ones who were doing most of the talking. The children, the young people, the people no longer young but still born since the voyage started, still looking upon Earth more as a wonderful legend than as their own place of origin.
It was the only sky she knew; like her mother’s mother before her, she was space-born. Centuries ago, driven out of the fat green worlds, her people had grown austere, like the arid fields of stars they roamed along.
His age was noted as problematical, since he had been space-born.
He was space-born and had never known the feel of a planet underneath his feet or the burden of an unvarying gravity.
Melpomene Murray and her space-born classmates have been trained from birth to lead mankind into the future, but Melpomene has plans of her own.
You’re a free miner. You’re space born. That’s two strikes against you on Luna. Don’t give up.
antedating 1940
Henry Kuttner, "A Million Years to Conquer", in Startling Stories
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