space-travelling adj.
capable of space travel; that travels in space
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1930
Following them in our new space-traveling rocket ship, we rescued Tallan.
Buck Rogers, 2430 A.D. in Oakland Tribune 23 June 4 -
1931
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Isaac R. Nathanson
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After years of intense effort, Lowellโs great genius had finally perfected the space-traveling mechanism, which had given us our first successfuly trial flight into the vacuous reaches of out space hundreds of miles beyond the earthโs last trace of atmosphere.
Moon People of Jupiter in Amazing Stories Quarterly Spring 230/1 -
1942
Donald A. Wollheim
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This was, this could only be, an artificially created mass, an intelligently directed body, another space-travelling vehicle for an intelligent race!
Blind Flight in Stirring Science Stories Mar. 24/3 -
1946 Amazing Stories Sept. 97/2
The countless races of men in this frame of space would be neglected and permitted to degenerate into lawless bands of space-traveling pirates.
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1951
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Somebody once suggested that the ones [sc. fairies] in the story books were the space traveling ancestors of the present-day hallucinations.
Mars Child in Galaxy Science Fiction 137/1 -
1959
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Andrew E. Svenson
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Tom and his space-traveling crew always best their adversaries, but there is one threat forever lurking.
New Tom Swift in Fantastic Universe July 100/2 -
1966
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Larry Niven
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I never heard of a space-traveling race that builds such big things for mere monuments.
Relic of the Empire in Worlds of If Dec. 80/1 -
2003
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Robert A. Metzger
The galaxy is really not a big place at all, not with respect to space traveling aliens.
in Absolute Magnitude Summer 47/2
Research requirements
antedating 1930
Earliest cite
"Buck Rogers" cartoon
Research History
Fred Galvin submitted a 1942 example from Donald Wollheim (writing as "Millard Verne Gordon") in Stirring Science Stories.
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