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"Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it."
- Robert Heinlein
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| Spacefaring | ||
| A nation or people who explore and trade in space. |
By analogy to "seafaring".
| The Finstera are not a spacefaring people; there was no possibility that the bogie would be identified as theirs. |
| Technovelgy from Citizen of the Galaxy,
by Robert Heinlein. Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1957 Additional resources -
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I think the phrase itself was used previously, as in Ballad of Venus Nell (1942) by NS Bono:
But Heinlein really nails the usage, for my money.
None but the most daring do any space-faring In those lethal, whirlagig niches,
But spacemen all claim that the Bog is aflame With infinite, fabulous riches.
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