Full record for earthside n.

Definition	an earthside location or organization. Also "earth-side".
OED requirements	any evidence 1953
Earliest cite	Robert A. Heinlein, 'Starman Jones'
Comment	Fred Galvin submitted a 1956 cite from Jacques Jean Ferrat's "Snowstorm on Mars". Fred Galvin submitted a 1958 cite from "Slaves of the Tree" by Robert Silverberg (as Eric Rodman). Malcolm Farmer submitted a cite from a UK reprint of "the Sound of the Wind" by Theodore L. Thomas Malcolm Farmer submitted a 1977 cite from "...and earth so far away" by Herbert Charles Petley The OED has a quote from a 1963 reprint of Robert A. Heinlein's 1949 "Red Planet".
Last modified	30 August, 2009

Citations for earthside n.

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1953 R. A. Heinlein Starman Jones (1975) x. 104	The Ozarks. That's Earthside.
1958 ‘E. Rodman’ Slaves of Tree in Super-Sci. Fiction June 67/2	With unquivering fingers he completed the connection and waited for Earthside to respond with the acknowledgement.
1974 J. Haldeman Forever War (1976) 14	But I'd like to reinforce a couple of points, maybe add some things your instructors Earthside weren't clear about or couldn't know.
1979 J. P. Hogan Two Faces of Tomorrow (1987) 9	Paggett is only there until he retires Earthside and until then he'll just go on rubber stamping.
1991 K. Laumer Judson's Eden 26	I've got a report from Earthside—‘unauthorized departure from a court-ordered detention in a Class Five facility’—some kind of faked-up hospital.