Full record for astrogate v.

Definition	to navigate in space
OED requirements	antedating 1941
Earliest cite	R.A. Heinlein, 'Common Sense'
Comment	Rick Hauptmann submitted a cite from a reprint of Robert Heinlein's "Common Sense"; Mike Christie verified it in the original 1941 magazine version. Earliest cite in the OED: 1942.
Last modified	8 March, 2005

Citations for astrogate v.

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1948 R. A. Heinlein Space Cadet 70	And you laddies expect to learn to astrogate! Better by far you should have gone to cow colleges.
1953 R. A. Heinlein Starman Jones (1980) xx. 185	You want to raise the ship, so you want me to astrogate.
1953 R. A. Heinlein Starman Jones (1980) xx. 186	I'll astrogate—shucks, I suppose it's all right to call me the astrogator, under the circumstances.