SpaceXer

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English

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Etymology

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From SpaceX +‎ -er.

Noun

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SpaceXer (plural SpaceXers)

  1. 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.