space sailor n.
a person who travels in space, esp. as a profession
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1933
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Jack Winks
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We were playin' space sailor, an' Jimmy, here, says that there’s air out there… There ain’t any air out in space, is there?
Adrift on a Meteor in Amazing Stories Aug.–Sept. 431/1 -
1942
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Edmond Hamilton
Earthmen were fairly numerous in this main port of the planet. Swaggering space-sailors, prosperous-looking traders and rough meteor-miners made up the most of them. There were a few tourists gaping at the grotesque old black stone buildings, and under a krypton-bulb at a corner, two men in the drab uniform of the Patrol stood eyeing passersby sharply. Kenniston breathed more easily when he and the Jovian had passed the two officers without challenge.
World with a Thousand Moons in Amazing Stories Dec. 66/2 -
1953
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Mark Clifton
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Admiral Littlefield was a space sailor of the old school.
Bow Down to Them in Universe Science Fiction June 85/2 -
1980
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Robert F. Young
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Originally, to explain my periodic absences…I passed myself off as a space sailor.
Haute Bourgeoisie in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Jan. 15/2 -
[2002
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Geoffrey A. Landis
His skin was the rich black of a deep-space sailor.]
At Dorado in Asimov’s Science Fiction Oct.–Nov. 67
Research requirements
antedating 1933
Earliest cite
Jack Winks, in Amazing Stories
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