Sheinberg also hated the title Back to the Future and wanted it changed to Spaceman from Pluto, a reference to the comic clutched by the Peabody children after the DeLorean crashes into their barn on arriving in 1955.

"Spaceman" is a more colloquial term that can refer to astronauts or to anyone who travels in space, including cosmonauts (from Russia) and taikonauts (from China). In general, "astronaut" is the more formal and widely recognized term, while "spaceman" is more informal and can be used in a broader sense.