The Space Jockey

leading from :
The Alien

 

At the beginning of the Alien production, the corpse of alien pilot was known as the alien pilot. Giger's his diaries freely refers to the crew of the Nostromo as Space Jockeys, but eventually the name The Space Jockey stuck on the alien pilot and today when people might talk about a Space Jockey in science fiction, often they're referring to the alien pilot in Alien and the original open use of the term perhaps since Robert Heinlein's scifi novel from 1947 "The Space Jockey" has almost been forgotten.

1.  Roots in "Swiss Family Robinson"
2. Early Designs for the Space Jockey
3. Unlocking the design of the Space Jockey
4. The Space Jockey's Story