space-travelling adj.
capable of space travel; that travels in space
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1930 Buck Rogers, 2430 A.D. in Oakland Tribune 23 June 4
Following them in our new space-traveling rocket ship, we rescued Tallan.
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1931 Moon People of Jupiter in Amazing Stories Quarterly Spring 230/1
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Isaac R. Nathanson
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After years of intense effort, Lowell’s 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 earth’s last trace of atmosphere.
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1942 Blind Flight in Stirring Science Stories Mar. 24/3
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!
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1946 Battle of the Gods in Amazing Stories Sept. 97/2
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Rog Phillips
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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 Mars Child in Galaxy Science Fiction 137/1
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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.
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1959 New Tom Swift in Fantastic Universe July 100/2
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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.
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1966 Relic of the Empire in Worlds of If Dec. 80/1
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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.
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2003 in Absolute Magnitude Summer 47/2
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Robert A. Metzger
The galaxy is really not a big place at all, not with respect to space traveling aliens.
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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