The phrase "astronautical engineer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a professional who designs and develops spacecraft and related technologies.
Example: "After years of study, she finally achieved her dream of becoming an astronautical engineer, working on cutting-edge space missions."
Alternatives: "aerospace engineer" or "spacecraft engineer".
Courtenay was the art-loving dermatologist, Finney hilarious and exasperated as an astronautical engineer appalled by the purchase.
FIRST LANDING (Ace, $21.95), a first novel by Robert Zubrin, an astronautical engineer, is best approached as a fictionalized tract for Zubrin's Mars Direct Plan, which promises to get humans to the red planet and back in "our generation".
Christopher Williams' goal is a little bit different: He wants to become an astronautical engineer.
John Robb is an astronautical engineer turned US Air Force Special Operations pilot turned Forrester lead analyst turned startup CTO/COO turned military theorist and author, to oversimplify.
If it comes to that, the implications for the future of the space shuttles and the International Space Station could be profound, astronautical engineers and policy analysts say.
A pair of British astronautical engineers, Mark Hempsell and Alan Bond, argue that the bolide inspired the Greek myth of Phaeton who lost control of his father's sun chariot and plunged to Earth.
A pair of British astronautical engineers, Mark Hempsell and Alan Bond, argue that the bolide inspired the Greek myth of Phaeton — who lost control of his father's sun chariot and plunged to Earth — and was also responsible for the demise of Ötzi, the mummified "ice man" found in the Alps, in 1991, with an arrowhead in his shoulder.
The books are written for a readership of aerospace and astronautical engineers, space scientists and researchers, spacecraft designers, managers and mission planners in space agencies, space policy makers and postgraduate students in university departments and research institutes in related fields.
Aldama was an aeronautical and astronautical engineering major as an undergraduate at MIT before working for five years on oil systems of jet engines as an aerospace engineer for Pratt and Whitney, an American aerospace manufacturer.
Bailey earned her doctorate in aeronautical and astronautical engineering.
Today the more encompassing aerospace definition has commonly replaced the terms aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering.
