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Aerospace companies of the United States
- Douglas Aircraft CompanyOn the 6th of April 1924, four open-cockpit biplanes lifted off from Seattle, Washington, heading west on a mission no aircraft had ever attempted: flying…
- SpaceXSpaceX began with a question Elon Musk asked on a flight home from Moscow: what would it take to build affordable rockets from scratch? That was 2002.
- Pratt & Whitney RocketdyneThe year 2005 marked a significant shift in the American rocket engine industry. Pratt & Whitney Space Propulsion and Boeing Rocketdyne Propulsion & Power…
- RocketdyneIn 1955, North American Aviation spun off Rocketdyne as a separate division within its corporate structure. The new entity established its headquarters in…
- Astrobotic TechnologyAstrobotic Technology launched its first spacecraft on the 8th of January 2024, a moment the Pittsburgh company had been building toward since 2007.
- Blue OriginJeff Bezos established Blue Origin Enterprises, L.P. in 2000 with a quiet ambition to make space travel accessible. The company operated from Kent…
- ConvairConvair once ranked fourth among all United States corporations by the value of its wartime production contracts, outpacing Boeing, Douglas Aircraft, and…
- General DynamicsIsaac Leopold Rice bought the Holland Torpedo Boat Company from John Philip Holland in 1899. This transaction marked the beginning of what would become a…
- Glenn L. Martin CompanyThe Glenn L. Martin Company once built the planes that dropped the atomic bombs on Japan, and then turned around and sent probes to Saturn.
- GrummanOn the 6th of December 1929, four engineers registered a new company in an old factory on Long Island, New York, that had belonged to the Cox-Klemin Aircraft…