rocketeer
/ˌrɑkəˈtɪr/
noun
- A person who designs, builds, or launches rockets.
- As a rocketeer, she worked for a company that sent satellites into orbit.
- The young rocketeer spent every weekend testing small rockets in the field.
- The museum exhibit featured the tools and models of a famous rocketeer from the 1960s.
- A person who travels in a rocket, especially an astronaut or space explorer.
- In the science fiction novel, the rocketeer blasted off to explore a distant planet.
- Children dreamed of becoming rocketeers and walking on the moon.
- The first rocketeers faced unknown dangers as they left Earth's atmosphere.
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