Full record for astronavigator n.
| Definition | = astrogator (also astro-navigator) |
| OED requirements | antedating 1941 |
| Earliest cite | Eric Frank Russell, 'Jay Score' |
| Comment | Michael R.N. Dolbear submitted a 2003 cite from Peter David's "No Limits". Michael R.N. Dolbear submitted a 2001 cite from Dan Abnett's "Xenos". Michael R.N. Dolbear submitted a 2000 cite from Hilari Bell's "Navohar" Michael R.N. Dolbear submitted a cite from a 1990 reprint of a 1979 translation by Louis Iribarne of Stanislaw Lem's "Tales of Pirx the Pilot" Douglas Winston submitted a 1965 cite for "astro-navigator" from an Eric Frank Russell collection "Men, Martians and Machines"; which Mike Christie verified in its 1941 first publication in "Jay Score". Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a Project Gutenberg etext of Robert Moore Williams' "Planet of the Gods" (original print version from Amazing Stories, December 1942) The OED has astro-navigator (1949), but only in the sense of a an air pilot, or automatic air-piloting machine, using the observation of the stars for calculation of position: we are looking for one who plots positions and calculates courses in space. |
| Last modified | 7 July, 2010 |
Citations for astronavigator n.
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| 1960 M. Clifton Eight Keys to Eden (1965) 22 | Sure, it was only a three-man crew—himself, a flight engineer, an astro-navigator. |
| 1990 S. Lem & L. Iribarne tr. Tales of Pirx Pilot 198 | Unable to sleep, he opened a volume of Irving's memoirs—of astronavigator fame—and read until his eyes began to burn. |