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From the beginning, the [[United States Air Force]] USAF defined '''aerospace''' as "an operationally indivisible medium consisting of the total expanse beyond the Earth's surface." <ref>AFP 11-1-4, Interim Aerospace Terminology Reference, 30 October 1959, 2-3.</ref>. '''Aerospace''' now is a now a term used to | From the beginning, the [[United States Air Force]] USAF defined '''aerospace''' as "an operationally indivisible medium consisting of the total expanse beyond the Earth's surface." <ref>AFP 11-1-4, Interim Aerospace Terminology Reference, 30 October 1959, 2-3.</ref>. '''Aerospace''' now is a now a term used to encompass everything from [[aerodynamics]] to [[space]]. | ||
==History & Etymology== | ==History & Etymology== | ||
Revision as of 01:48, 14 October 2007
From the beginning, the United States Air Force USAF defined aerospace as "an operationally indivisible medium consisting of the total expanse beyond the Earth's surface." [1]. Aerospace now is a now a term used to encompass everything from aerodynamics to space.
History & Etymology
The term aerospace may first have been used during Air Force discussions with the Congress. [2]
Aerospace as a subject has been explored for centuries. In a Greek legend of Icarus and his father Daedalus, they built wings of feathers and wax to escape prison. Leonardo da Vinci, was one famous early scientist to study what is now aerospace. The popular conception of modern aerospace is traced to the first powered flight, by the Wright brothers, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on December 17, 1903,