Editing Navigator (section)

== In science fiction ==
Navigators are often part of a [[starship]] crew in [[science fiction]], where they are sometimes called astrogators, a merger of the prefix "astro" and "navigator". According to a science fiction citations site for the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'', the earliest known use of the word is in [[David Lasser]]'s 1931 book ''[[The Conquest of Space (1931)|The Conquest of Space]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.jessesword.com/sf/view/27 |title=Full record for astrogator n. |website=jessesword.com}}</ref> According to that site and also ''[[Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction]]'', it first appeared in science fiction in [[Stanley G. Weinbaum]]'s short story "[[The Planet of Doubt]]", published in the October 1935 issue of ''[[Astounding Stories]]''.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iYzi8m8FbEsC&q=astrogator&pg=PR3 |title=Brave new words |date=1953 |isbn=978-0-19-530567-8 |last1=Prucher |first1=Jeff }}</ref>

The title character of [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s 1953 novel ''[[Starman Jones]]'' is an astrogator.