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SpaceXer
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English
Etymology
From en w:SpaceX er occupation.
Noun
An employee of the American spacecraft manufacturer, launcher, and satellite communications corporation SpaceX.
en w:Michael Belfiore Rocketeers: How a Visionary Band of Business Leaders, Engineers, and Pilots Is Boldly Privatizing Space Smithsonian Books 2007 181 https://archive.org/details/rocketeershowvis00belf_0/page/181/mode/1up 978-0-06-114902-3 Allen took everything he saw here in stride, and the younger SpaceXers respected him as a wise old-timer.
en Karl Wickstrom Wildlife or missiles? We’ll have both, please Press Journal Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers 9 June 2013 3B https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/785381976/ 4 The Space Florida and SpaceXers claim that hundreds of jobs would be created at the refuge launch sites.
en Erik Nordeus The Engineer: Follow Elon Musk on a Journey from South Africa to Mars Leanpub 2014 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.
en Joe Pappalardo Spaceport Earth: The Reinvention of Spaceflight New York, N.Y.; London Overlook Duckworth 2017 207 https://archive.org/details/spaceportearthre0000papp/page/207/mode/1up 978-1-4683-1278-2 Over the years I’ve met lots of SpaceXers, from former astronauts to engineers to range rats.
en w:Andrew Rader Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars Scribner 2019 2020 301 978-1-9821-2353-6 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.
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