space navigation n.
navigation in space; = astrogation n.
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1928
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Edwin K. Sloat
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The earliest experiments in space navigation failed to interest him, but when Peabody made his ill-fated attempt to circumnavigate the moon in his radion globe…Prof. Morteshang became intensely interested in the subject.
Flight to Venus in Amazing Stories Dec. 780/2 -
1939
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Thorp McClusky
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He knew that, with his scant knowledge of space navigation, he would never be able to find this mountain of precious metal again.
Little Planet in Science Fiction Oct. 85/2 -
1949
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Murray Leinster
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Rod Cantrell…had departed from Earth without authorization in the only vessel capable of space-navigation.
Black Galaxy in Startling Stories Mar. 66/2 -
1963
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Keith Laumer
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According to the Space Navigation Code, a body in orbit within twenty miles of any inhabited airless body constitutes a navigational hazard. Accordingly, I had it towed away.
Saline Solution in Worlds of If Mar. 37/1 -
1994
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Jack Williamson
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We're competent. We know space navigation. We have trained astronomers aboard, and expert computer software.
Ice Gods in Amazing Stories Winter 23/1 -
2013
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James E. Gunn
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We studied military strategies, combat maneuvers, enough space navigation to understand—and sometimes check upon—the navigators, weapons and weapon repair, chemistry and physics and mathematics, but no literature or art.
Transcendental vii. 100
Research requirements
antedating 1928
Earliest cite
Edwin K. Sloat, in Amazing Stories
Research History
Ben Ostrowsky submitted a 2013 cite from James E. Gunn.
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