space flight n.
a journey in or into outer space; (as a mass noun) space-travel generally
SF Encyclopedia
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1930 Prisoners on the Electron in Astounding Stories Oct. 93/1
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Robert H. Leitfred
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He stepped from the railed inclosure marking the spot where the atomic beam had restored them after their space flight.
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1931 Wonder Stories Jan. 900/1
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We know now what conditions are necessary for a space flight… After all space flying is too great a matter to be limited by national pride and jealousy.
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1940 Ultimate Salient in Planet Stories Fall 26/2
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Nelson S. Bond
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It was weirdly strange, sitting there reading a story of spaceflight adventure written twenty years ago.
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1949 Across Sea of Stars (1959) 76
Arthur C. Clarke
There is a timelessness about space-flight…unmatched by any other experience of man.
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1974 Dispossessed (1975) vii. 187
Ursula K. Le Guin
Where’s our instantaneous spaceflight?
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1980 Sundiver .xxi. 238
David Brin
More males volunteer for spaceflight than females.
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1985 Ishmael x. 143
Barbara Hambly
Earth history before we made contact with other space-flight civilizations is too limited for what we want.
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1990 Voyage to a Far Planet in Omni July 86/1
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Spaceflight is tough duty even close to home in low Earth orbit.
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1992 Fire upon Deep vii. 45
Vernor Vinge
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I'll bet it’s an idea older than spaceflight: the ‘elder races’ must be toward the galactic core.
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2020 Machine iii. 39
Elizabeth Bear
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And believe me, if there is anything centian-long [sic] space flights are good for, it’s gossip.
Research requirements
antedating 1931
Earliest cite
in Wonder Stories January
Research History
Bee Ostrowsky submitted a 2020 cite from Elizabeth Bear.
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