space scientist n.
an expert or specialist in a branch of science that deal with regions beyond the earth or beyond Earth’s atmosphere, including astronomy, astrophysics, and exobiology
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1939
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There’s one man who might know—the Space Scientist!
Impossible World in Startling Stories Mar. 28/2 -
1951 Los Angeles Times Nov. 29 2/3
Roasting of fliers on moon trip seen Constant splashing with water may help, space scientist says
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1961
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Raymond Z. Gallun
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We always agreed that I should become a space-scientist.
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1975
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Since 1970 I have been the only space scientist known to be devoting full time to Ufology.
Letter in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May 158/1 -
1999 About the Authors in C. Pellegrino & G. Zebrowski Star Trek: Next Generation: Dyson Sphere 233
He has been described by Stephen Jay Gould as a space scientist who occasionally looks down and by Arthur C. Clarke as ‘the polymathic astro-geologist-nuclear physicist who happens to be the world’s first astro-paleontologist’.
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2013
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George R. R. Martin
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And while the discovery of Martian life would no doubt be electrifying to biologists and space scientists around the world, there’s never been a microbe with the appeal of Dejah Thoris.
Introduction: Red Planet Blues in Old Mars xix
Research requirements
antedating 1939
Earliest cite
Eando Binder, in Startling Stories
Research History
Roberto Labanti submitted a cite from a newspaper story subheading in the Los Angeles Times, 29 November 1951.Jesse Sheidlower submitted a 1939 cite from Eando Binder .
Ben Ostrowsky submitted a 2013 cite from George R. R. Martin.
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