Following World War II, the American aerospace industry underwent a significant transformation from an industry that primarily depended on federal government military orders and mail contract subsidies to one that increasingly relied on the civilian...

Aerospace engineering is the branch of engineering that concerns aircraft, spacecraft, and related topics. Aerospace Engineering was originally known as aeronautical engineering and dealt solely with aircraft. The broader term "aerospace engineering"...

Oxygen generators similar to those blamed for the 1996 ValuJet crash likely caused the rapid spread of a chemical fire that forced the evacuation of thousands last year, a federal agency said Wednesday.The U.S. Chemical Safety Board issued a safety advisory to aircraft maintenance and...

A spacesuit developed by students at the University of North Dakota and four other schools will be tested in the Utah desert. UND officials said researchers from the school will travel with the spacesuit to Utah during the first week in April. Students from the...

A crew that includes Malaysia's first astronaut and an American who will become the first woman to command the international space station prepared Monday for blastoff later this week.The Soyuz-FG rocket is scheduled to blast off from the Central Asian steppe on Wednesday night to...

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is asking engineers to join his fledgling and secretive private aerospace business, breaking a long silence about his operation in a remote section of West Texas by posting photos and videos on the company's Web site of a test launch of...