spacewalker n.

a machine designed to enable a person to walk in space

Rare.

  • 1930 E. Hamilton Universe Wreckers in Amazing Stories May 111/1 page image Edmond Hamilton bibliography

    Also attached to hooks on the walls were the four space-walkers that had been constructed for us to enable us to venture outside of the flier into airless space, if necessary.

  • 1930 E. Hamilton Universe Wreckers in Amazing Stories June 254/1 page image Edmond Hamilton bibliography

    Four space-walkers, specially designed to be used by the men outside of the space-flier in interplanetary space in case of an emergency, are also included among the accessories.

Earliest cite

1930
Research History
Apparently only found in Edmond Hamilton's "Universe Wreckers".

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