space travel n.

travel through outer space

SF Encyclopedia


  • 1923 Dubbo Liberal & Macquarie Advocate 21 Sept. 3/4 page image

    Space travel will immediately be as effective and as cheap as that in the air or on the earth.

  • 1929 C. W. Harris & M. J. Breuer Baby on Neptune in Amazing Stories Dec. 793/2 page image Miles J. Breuer, M.D. Clare Winger Harris bibliography

    Noting that you have already made a successful trip to Venus, and not having ourselves as yet conquered the problems of space travel, we invite you to visit us on Neptune.

  • 1937 ‘E. Binder’ Conquest of Life in Thrilling Wonder Stories Aug. 30/2 page image Otto Binder Eando Binder bibliography

    Ten years of research on liquid and solid rocket fuels had convinced him space travel would not be achieved by that clumsy, wasteful means.

  • 1946 R. A. Heinlein Letter 16 Mar. in R. A. Heinlein & V. Heinlein Grumbles from Grave (1990) 43 Robert A. Heinlein

    But I do expect space travel and I expect it soon.

  • 1954 E. B. Cole Exile in Astounding Science Fiction Jan. 32/2 page image Everett B. Cole bibliography

    He fanned out his detectors to maximum sensitivity, but was unable to discover any trace of space travel.

  • 1972 ‘W. Tenn’ Jazz Then, Musicology Now in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May 107/2 page image William Tenn bibliography

    I read an article on space travel in some butcher-paper science-fiction magazine…. He…spent almost an hour showing me—with figures and formulae—why space travel was unlikely, impracticable, and very close to being a scientific impossibility.

  • 1999 C. Pellegrino & G. Zebrowski Star Trek Next Generation: Dyson Sphere ix. 136 George Zebrowski Charles Pellegrino bibliography

    ‘And what was this hope?’… ‘Space travel. It’s an ancient dream for them.’

  • 2020 E. Bear Machine viii. 111 Elizabeth Bear bibliography

    One thing about space travel: even when you’re in a hurry, it takes a long time to get where you’re going, because everything is extremely far away.

Research requirements

antedating 1923
Research History
Fred Galvin located a cite in a 1950 reprint of "A Baby on Neptune" by Clare Winger Harris and Miles J. Breuer, M.D., and Jeff Prucher verified it in the 1929 original publication.
Bee Ostrowsky submitted a 2020 cite from Elizabeth Bear.
Simon Koppel submitted a 1923 example from a newspaper database.

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