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1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 May 410/1 Mr. Walsh's space-liner..travelling on the Earth–Mars–Venus route..derives nothing from its predecessors.

1939 L. del Rey in Astounding Sci.-Fiction Aug. 15/1 In an emergency, no group of men on Earth can do the work that a space-crew can turn out in a scant half-hour.

1942 Astounding Sci.-Fiction Mar. 73/2 I will make one more hypothesis: it is that we Earth people are today on the verge of space conquest, and that any race further advanced than we must have already mastered space flight.

1951 A. C. Clarke Sands of Mars x. 126 Visiting space-crews..soon got bored if they had nothing to do between trips.

1953 J. N. Leonard Flight into Space xi. 103 Using the scientific method of dissecting a many-sided problem into its separate parts, the space doctors discuss and study the dangers of space individually.

1961 New Scientist 27 July 216 Ultimately, the space bus named Ranger will find its way to the moon, running on electric power drawn from the sun.

1961 Aeroplane 100 184/1 The one-man ‘space tug’ would be used for assembling a large space-station in orbit.

1966 Observer 4 Dec. 2/7 American scientists are planning ‘space lifeboats’ to rescue the crews of disabled spaceships.

1970 Metrop. Mus. Art Bull. 28 355 The shape, the style, the form of an art museum must necessarily differ from that of a maritime museum or a natural history museum or a space museum.

1982 A. Hemingway Pzyche i. 16 The castaway..was a former waiter on a spaceliner.

1989 Space Policy 5 60 The era of space conquest has now given way to an era of space exploitation.

2007 Virginian–Pilot (Norfolk, Virginia) (Nexis) 22 Apr. a16 He then bit enthusiastically into a green apple—a traditional offering for space crews touching down in Kazakhstan.