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Aerospace engineering is the primary field of engineering concerned with the development of aircraft and spacecraft. [3] It has two major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering. Avionics engineering is similar, but deals with the electronics side of aerospace engineering.
Scarlin Hernandez (born 1991) – aerospace engineer for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope; Hall Hibbard (1903–1996) – Lockheed engineer; Homer Hickam (born 1943) – NASA engineer, model rocketry enthusiast; Geoffrey T. R. Hill (1895–1955) – designer of the Westland-Hill Pterodactyls and co-developed the aero-isoclinic wing
The aerospace industry employed 472,000 wage and salary workers in 2006. [5] Most of those jobs were in Washington state and in California, with Missouri , New York and Texas also being important. The leading aerospace manufacturers in the U.S. are Boeing , United Technologies Corporation , SpaceX , Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin .
At JPL, he is a mechanical engineer working on planetary sample acquisition and handling. [2] [5] He has worked on the Mars Science Laboratory, InSight, and Mars 2020 missions. [2] Since joining JPL, Yazzie has been involved in recruiting other Native Americans to work at NASA. [3]
About 50 full-time researchers are working on projects at NIA. [ 2 ] NIA conducts a broad range of scientific and engineering research sponsored by NASA, other government agencies and the aerospace industry.
Adam Diedrich Steltzner (born 1963) [3] is an American NASA engineer who works for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). He worked on several flight projects including Galileo , Cassini , Mars Pathfinder , Mars Exploration Rovers (MER).
Joseph Francis Shea (September 5, 1925 – February 14, 1999) was an American aerospace engineer and NASA manager. Born in the New York City borough of the Bronx, he was educated at the University of Michigan, receiving a Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics in 1955.