spacefaring adj.
that travels, or is able to travel, in space; that is used during or pertains to space travel
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1942
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David Wright O'Brien
If it weren’t for his childish desire to play spacefaring financier, he'd never have put a kleka in with us.
Suicide Ship to Earth in Amazing Stories Feb. 181/2 -
1942
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David Wright O'Brien
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The seedy litle [sic] man in spacefaring garb of soiled raggedness nudged him.
Creegar Dares to Die in Fantastic Adventures Aug. 117/1 -
1952
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A. Bertram Chandler
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She’s a better ship than any of the spacefaring boudoirs that are turned out by your yards!
Frontier of Dark in Astounding Science Fiction Sept. 133/1 -
1953
Philip José Farmer
Once the quarantine had been clamped down and all the space-faring Remohs located and examined, Gaulers went to work.
Strange Compulsion in Science Fiction Plus Oct. 60/1 -
1957
Robert A. Heinlein
The Finstera are not a spacefaring people; there was no possibility that the bogie would be identified as theirs.
in Astounding Science Fiction Nov. 90/2 -
1970
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Joe Haldeman
Strange for a spacefaring, aggressive race to be so uncurious about planetary environments.
Time Piece in Worlds of If July–Aug. 46/1 -
1979
Arthur C. Clarke
During the millennia since they had launched Starglider, their spacefaring ability must have improved enormously.
Fountains of Paradise 80 -
1981
C. J. Cherryh
A communicative, spacefaring species, hitherto unknown, in a position to have come into kif hands without passing through more civilized regions.
Pride of Chanur (1991) iv. 61 -
1991
Orson Scott Card
Had she thought he would stride off the shuttle as strong and bold as a spacefaring god from some romance?
Xenocide viii. 109 -
1998 Interzone Sept. 15/1
He did not dislike the other spacefaring species; he found them interesting.
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2005
Iain M. Banks
Because if all this was real then he was, maybe, on the brink of the most astounding discovery in all human history, a revelation that could do untold harm or bring inestimable benefits to any combination of the Mercatoria, its adversaries and just about every other space-faring species in the galaxy.
Algebraist v. 368
Research requirements
antedating 1942
Earliest cite
David Wright O'Brien
Research History
Mike Christie submitted a cite from a 1978 reprint of Robert Heinlein's "Citizen of the Galaxy".James A. Landau verified the cite in the 1957 first edition.
Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a reprint of Philip Jose Farmer's "Strange Compulsion"; Rick Hauptmann verified the cite in the 1953 first magazine appearance.
Fred Galvin submitted a 1952 cite from A. Bertram Chandler's "Frontier of the Dark."
Jesse Sheidlower submitted 1942 cites from David Wright O'Brien.
Earliest cite in the OED: 1962.
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