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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 .
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.
John Houbolt (1919–2014) – NASA engineer, lunar orbit rendezvous proponent; Kathleen Howell – known for her contributions to dynamical systems theory applied to spacecraft trajectory; Hsue-Chu Tsien (1914–1997) – aeronautical engineer; Howard Hughes (1905–1976) – aerospace engineer, owned RKO movie studio
The following year from June 2016 to June 2017 Fletcher was a design engineer and stress analyst intern at Boeing, where she helped with the design process and analysis of the Space Launch System for NASA.
Robert David Braun [1] is an American aerospace engineer and academic. He has served as the dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, the David and Andrew Lewis Professor of Space Technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the NASA Chief Technologist.
NASA's budget as percentage of federal total, from 1958 to 2017. NASA's budget for financial year (FY) 2020 is $22.6 billion. [1] It represents 0.48% of the $4.7 trillion the United States plans to spend in the fiscal year. [2] Since its inception the United States has spent nearly US$650 billion (in nominal dollars) on NASA.
Mechanical engineer Joel Steinkraus and systems engineer Farah Alibay (right) from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory hold a full-scale mockup of Mars Cube One In 2016, she became a Payload Systems Engineer on the InSight mission, [ 3 ] a robotic lander spacecraft that was designed to study the interior of the planet Mars , to where it lifted off ...