SpaceXer
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]SpaceXer (plural SpaceXers)
- An employee of the American spacecraft manufacturer, launcher, and satellite communications corporation SpaceX.
- 2007, Michael Belfiore, Rocketeers: How a Visionary Band of Business Leaders, Engineers, and Pilots Is Boldly Privatizing Space, Smithsonian Books, →ISBN, page 181:
- Allen took everything he saw here in stride, and the younger SpaceXers respected him as a wise old-timer.
- 2013 June 9, Karl Wickstrom, “Wildlife or missiles? We’ll have both, please”, in Press Journal, Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers, page 3B, column 4:
- The Space Florida and SpaceXers claim that hundreds of jobs would be created at the refuge launch sites.
- 2014, Erik Nordeus, The Engineer: Follow Elon Musk on a Journey from South Africa to Mars, Leanpub, pages 126, 129, and 136–137:
- The original SpaceX team consisted of about 20 SpaceXers, as they call themselves. […] “We start with that layer – young engineers, young talent, young technicians – who don’t really know what’s impossible,” a SpaceXer said. […] The total number of employees were now 150 SpaceXers.
- 2017, Joe Pappalardo, Spaceport Earth: The Reinvention of Spaceflight, New York, N.Y., London: Overlook Duckworth, →ISBN, page 207:
- Over the years I’ve met lots of SpaceXers, from former astronauts to engineers to range rats.
- 2019, Andrew Rader, Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars, Scribner, published 2020, →ISBN, page 301:
- Most of us SpaceXers in Hawthorne, California, had come in to watch the Dragon spacecraft launch to the International Space Station, which is pretty typical even for a weekend.