a (short) trip made from one planet to another
Rare.
Three months of riotous living at Spaceways’ expense and the rating zooms. One planet hop and it plummets again.
Because it wasn’t just another planet hop. It wasn’t just like the hundreds of other takeoffs. It was the Survival, the greatest spaceship ever engineered.
Scientists construct a space ark to carry forty humans and a menagerie of livestock to a planet where they can begin life anew. The technological challenges of such a planet hop are severe.
any evidence 1948
Neal Wilkinson, in Astounding
Last modified 2022-06-13 14:23:31
In the compilation of some
entries, HDSF has drawn extensively on corresponding entries
in OED.