the.com/aerospace
Everything above your head that physics still lets humans argue with.
means The combined field of flight through Earth's atmosphere and travel beyond it into space, covering the science, engineering, and industry behind both.
from A 20th-century blend coined once rockets made the old word 'aviation' feel too earthbound — splicing 'aero-' (air, from Greek aer) with 'space,' to name the moment flight stopped stopping at the sky.
- word birth
- First used officially by the US Air Force, 1958
- two halves
- Aero means air, space means literally everything else
- no border
- Space technically starts 62 miles up, the Karman line
- shared parts
- Jet engines and rocket engines share design ancestors