SpaceXer

plural SpaceXers

1. An employee of the American spacecraft manufacturer, launcher, and satellite communications corporation SpaceX.

   Over the years I’ve met lots of SpaceXers, from former astronauts to engineers to range rats.

   2017, Joe Pappalardo, Spaceport Earth: The Reinvention of Spaceflight, New York, N.Y.; London: Overlook Duckworth, →ISBN, page 207

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   Allen took everything he saw here in stride, and the younger SpaceXers respected him as a wise old-timer.

   2007, Michael Belfiore, Rocketeers: How a Visionary Band of Business Leaders, Engineers, and Pilots Is Boldly Privatizing Space, Smithsonian Books, →ISBN, page 181

   The Space Florida and SpaceXers claim that hundreds of jobs would be created at the refuge launch sites.

   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 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.

   2014, Erik Nordeus, The Engineer: Follow Elon Musk on a Journey from South Africa to Mars, Leanpub, pages 126, 129, and 136–137

   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.

   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