[ixfo]

Just so you know, the original source of the expression would be The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

VOGON GUARD: I’ll mention what you said to my aunt.

[Airlock door closes and locks]

FORD: Potentially bright lad, I thought.

ARTHUR: We’re trapped now, aren’t we?

FORD: Er… Yes, we’re trapped.

ARTHUR: Well didn’t you think of anything?

FORD: Oh Yes.

ARTHUR: Yes?

FORD: But, unfortunately, it rather involved being on the other side of the airtight hatchway they’ve just sealed behind us.

[IncRnd]

Maybe, but it probably stretches farther back than that, maybe even to before sliced bread or cool beans. Ten years before The Hitchhiker's Guide there was a robot, HAL, who woudn't open the airlock for a particular astronaut.