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1880 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Jan. 12/1 The Apergy once mastered, it was comparatively easy to anticipate and improve upon the ideas of a trifler like Jules Verne, and build a space-ship.

1894 J. J. Astor Journey in Other Worlds I. vi. 93 ‘What sort of space-ship do you propose to have?’ asked the vice-president.

1929 Sci. Wonder Q. 1 65/2 Since the space ship..was circling freely in space..the proximity of the moon was no hindrance to leaving the ship.

1932 Wonder Stories Apr. 1249/1 A long, flexible tube between the ships permitted them to go from the passenger liner to the space ship without space suits.

1936 Jrnl. Brit. Interplanetary Soc. 3 26 It is essential that the space~ship should be in constant communication with its base station.

1938 C. S. Lewis Out of Silent Planet iv. 38 All he ever remembered of his first meal in the space-ship was the tyranny of heat and light.

1948 ‘N. Shute’ No Highway ix. 226 Designs for a rocket-propelled Space Ship, I think he called it, for a projected journey to the moon.

1951 A. C. Clarke Sands of Mars i. 9 Sleek, streamlined spaceships..had been the dream of the early twentieth century.

1977 P. Carter Under Goliath vi. 29 It's from Mars... It's a spaceship from Mars.

1998 Church Times 5 June 17/2 Seventy per cent of the world's most advanced nation believe spaceships visit the earth; 50 per cent of them accept that spacemen abduct humans.

2005 Stamp Mag. Apr. 19/1 The crew of the Russian spaceship Soyuz 5 delivered mail when it docked with Soyuz 4 on January 14, 1969.

2006 New Yorker 6 Nov. 99/3 Wright's spaceship zoomed into the interstellar sandbox, looking for an uninhabited planet to colonize.

1966 B. Ward (title) Space ship earth.

1969 R. B. Fuller Operating Man. Spaceship Earth iv. 52 We have not been seeing our Spaceship Earth as an integrally-designed machine which to be persistently successful must be comprehended and serviced in total.

1981 Nature 5 Nov. 41/3 All species on ‘Spaceship Earth’ have an equal right to exist.

2001 S. King Dreamcatcher xv. 514 Unless you want to own a large part of the responsibility for the end of all life on Spaceship Earth..I advise you to shut up and listen.