I didn't nominate it, but Eärendil does go to space at the end of The Silmarillion to become the morning star
It's just observed from the ground rather than from his perspective.

The Mandalorian (TV) -- corrected

Loki (TV 2021) -- the show has space elements, as does the larger Marvel universe. The show, especially in the beginning, involves a lot of time travel to different planets (for example, in season one, the characters travel to a moon in the future which is being destroyed by a planet) and while it said it's main headquarters and the Sacred Timeline/"Loom" are outside of space and time, the latter is often depicted as being in a space-like setting. If expanding to include the greater MCU (which obviously impacts heavily on the show), a variant of the Loki character is killed on a spaceship fleeing his planet, while characters in the MCU are seen several times traveling by spaceship or visiting different planets, etc.

Not the nominator, but Welcome to Night Vale does have a whole Blood Space War plot with space travel involved.

I nominated the Silmarillion!

It's not technically in the story, but all my nominations deal with space in some form. Ungoliant is a spider being that comes from "out of Arda" so from out of the planet itself and that devours light, practically cosmic horror. Numenor's flying ships could be AU'ed into space ships with a tiny nudge. The Doors of Night are an "exit" from the skies of the world, so also somewhere in space (from there the black hole idea). Earendil becomes the morning star as another comment pointed out, by physically being on a ship that flies around the world all the time, and Arien and Tilion are the personification/mythological version of the Sun and the Moon (but they are, physically, in space carting sun and moon around).

I suppose it's more fantasy-space than scifi-space, so up to y'all whether to accept it as an edge case.

Edited 2024-01-27 06:24 pm (UTC)