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the industry where gravity is a rules committee, not a law.
means the combined field of atmospheric flight and space travel, spanning aircraft, satellites, rockets, and everything engineered to leave the ground.
from a portmanteau of aeronautics and space, coined in the late 1950s by the US Air Force as jets and rockets merged into one budget line and one industry.
cost per kilogramlaunching to orbit once cost about 54000 dollars
reusability shiftspacex cut that figure by roughly 20 times
margin for errorapollo 11 guidance computer had less power than a calculator
biggest employerboeing and airbus together build most commercial jets on earth
for instance
apollo 11 — 1969, first crewed moon landing, nasa
falcon 9 — spacex rocket that lands itself, since 2015
boeing 747 — 1970, changed mass air travel forever
iss — orbiting lab, continuously crewed since 2000