starsailor

plural starsailors

1. literatureA member of the crew of a spaceship or other spacecraft; a space voyager or traveller.

   Destiny, I'm the tailor of Your wish, I'm your starsailor.

   2018, Heriberto Figueroa Rivera, ChronoExtasis, page 53

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   He glanced to his left where the nincompoop Lotember saluted and waved to marching ranks of starsailors as if he actually knew something about running a space fleet.

   2000, Bill Baldwin, Canby's Legion, page 257

   Getting back to Miles's kinship with the post-psychedelic starsailors and aquanauts, the music of Dark Magus, On the Corner, Agharta, et al. offers a drastic intensification of rock's three most radical aspects: space, timbre and groove […]

   2011, Simon Reynolds, Bring the Noise: 20 Years of Writing About Hip Rock and Hip Hop

   Here, she found a small landing bay that housed a rusty cargo ship, with a couple of old starsailors beside it.

   2013, SF Said, Phoenix, page 29

   Synonyms: spacefarer