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Aerospace companies of the United States
- Douglas Aircraft CompanyIn April 1924, four Douglas biplanes left Seattle to fly around the world. Two of them made it back five months later.
- SpaceXRussia refused to sell Elon Musk a rocket, so he decided to build his own. That decision became SpaceX in 2002.
- Pratt & Whitney RocketdynePratt & Whitney Rocketdyne built the Space Shuttle's main engine. The rocket maker lasted only from 2005 to 2013.
- RocketdyneRocketdyne supplied all five F-1 engines on the Saturn V's first stage. It built the J-2 engines too.
- Astrobotic TechnologyAstrobotic Technology began as a team chasing a Google prize for landing on the Moon. Founded in 2007.
- Blue OriginBlue Origin sent its own founder, Jeff Bezos, across the edge of space on the 20th of July 2021. The flight, called NS-16, lasted about ten minutes and crossed the Kármán line, the conventional boundary of space, 100 km above sea level.…
- ConvairConvair's Atlas rockets carried the first American crews into orbit. The company began as a 1943 aircraft merger.
- General DynamicsGeneral Dynamics traces back to a single $150,000 submarine the U.S. Navy bought in 1900.
- Glenn L. Martin CompanyThe Glenn L. Martin Company built the B-29s that dropped the atomic bombs. It later launched probes to Saturn.
- GrummanGrumman built the Apollo lunar module that became a lifeboat on Apollo 13. It also made canoes and mail trucks.