spacedog

plural spacedogs · alternative space dog

1. A dog who travels in outer space.

   'Love me, love my dog,' Dr Hunter said. 'A woman's best friend.' Timmy, Snowy, Jumble, Lassie, Greyfriars Bobby. Everyone's best friend. Except for poor Laika, the spacedog, who was no one's friend.

   2008, Kate Atkinson, When Will There Be Good News?, Toronto, O.N.: Anchor Canada, published 2009, page 48

2. literatureA person experienced in space travel.

   But Station Yorick's customers liked that first interview. The grizzled old spacedog, pipe in mouth, glass in hand, spinning a yarn.... […]

   1980 April, A[rthur] Bertram Chandler, Asimov's Science Fiction, New York, N.Y.: Davis Publications, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 97

   Synonyms: spacehound