rocket scientist

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The league has even employed pilots, air traffic controllers, and a rocket scientist.

From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026

Also on board were Bezos's fiancée Lauren Sánchez, TV presenter Gayle King, former Nasa rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, and film producer Kerianne Flynn.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2025

He acknowledged it didn’t take a rocket scientist or whatever it is they do at MIT to come up with the design.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2025

And it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that most of what goes up must come down—in this case as showers of fiery debris pumping more metals into the stratosphere.

From Scientific American • Oct. 26, 2023

“I wanted to be a rocket scientist, like my dad. That’s what I wanted to be, if I wasn’t going to make the Olympics.”

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel