Full record for rocketeer n.

Definition	someone who flies rockets or rocketships
OED requirements	antedating 1935
Earliest cite	Benson Herbert, 'The Perfect World'
Comment	Fred Galvin submitted a 1950 cite from Walt Sheldon's "Music of the Spheres". Fred Galvin submitted a 1948 cite from Fredric Brown's "What Mad Universe". Fred Galvin submitted a 1953 cite from Murray Leinster's "The Journey". Fred Galvin submitted a 1949 cite from William Morrison's "Free Land". Fred Galvin submitted a 1935 cite from Benson Herbert's "The Perfect World". Fred Galvin submitted a 1950 cite from Forrest J. Ackerman in Other Worlds Science Stories. Fred Galvin submitted a 1953 cite from Oliver Saari's "The Space Man". Fred Galvin submitted a 1951 cite from William Tenn's "Venus is a Man's World". Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1951 reprint of Keith Bennett's "The Rocketeers Have Shaggy Ears"; Mike Christie verified it in the 1950 original.
Last modified	18 December, 2008

Citations for rocketeer n.

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1941 Cosmic Stories Mar.	He wore the woven bronze-mesh uniform of a commercial rocketeer service.
1948 F. Brown What Mad Universe in Startling Stories Sept. 14/1	Well, fellow space-pilots, tonight—the night I'm writing this, not the night you're reading it—is the big night, the big night, and the ole Rocketeer was out there to see it. And see it he did, that flash of light on the dark of the moon that marked the landing of the first successful missile launched through space by man.
1993 J. Pournelle & S. M. Stirling Prince of Sparta 219	Finally, two Helot rocketeers came up.