rocket engineer(n = noun.person) rocket scientist - an engineer who builds and tests rockets;
is a kind of applied scientist, engineer, technologist
has particulars: braun, von braun, wernher magnus maximilian von braun, wernher von braun

aeronautical engineer, aerospace engineer, anti-submarine rocket, army engineer, automotive engineer, booster rocket, civil engineer, congreve rocket, dyer's rocket, efficiency engineer, electrical engineer, engineer, engineer corps. (a) in the unit, flight engineer, garden rocket, highway engineer, locomotive engineer, marine engineer, mechanical engineer, metallurgical engineer, military engineer, mining engineer, multistage rocket, naval engineer, nuclear rocket, prairie rocket, railroad engineer, research rocket, retro rocket, rocket, rocket base, rocket cress, rocket engine, rocket firing, rocket fuel, rocket larkspur, rocket launcher, rocket launching, rocket power, rocket propellant, rocket propellent, rocket propulsion, rocket range, rocket salad, rocket scientist, sea rocket, software engineer, sounding rocket, space rocket, step rocket, sweet rocket, takeoff rocket, tansy-leaved rocket, test rocket, wall rocket, water rocket, white rocket, yellow rocket