By: Tim Beauvais

What is Aerospace?  Aerospace is the industry that researches, designs, manufactures, operates, and maintains vehicles moving through air and space.

1970: First NASA flight 1971: First soft landing on mars 1980: Voyager 1 flies past Saturn 1985: First Flight of Space Shuttle Atlantis 1986: Challenger accident kills 7 astronauts 1990: Hubble Space telescope deployed 1999: Mars polar lander is launched 2000: International Space Station Launched 2004: NASA Spirit Rover lands on Mars Aerospace History

NASA: An American Government agency that runs the civilain arm of the space program. Spacenet Inc.: A database satellite network, made several satellites in space. U.S. Military: The security and protection of NASA Boeing: Builds the actual space shuttles that NASA uses. Kodak: Helped design telescopes such as the Hubble telescope. Aerospace Companies

Every since the first space flight in 1970, Aerospace technology has improved dramatically. It went from people flying on the moon, then to mars, and other places. Also satellite technology has helped the country grow. When NASA developed rovers that went to mars that was a major advance in technology. Rovers could go to different planets instead of humans. Aerospace Technology Throughout Time

NASA’s biggest competition is the Russia Space Program. Russia does everything that NASA does, but it is kind of a competition to see who can be the first to do what. An example of this is the race to space. NASA’s Competition