Aerospace/engineering

Aerospace engineering deals with designing and building machines that fly. It is one of the newest branches of engineering. Aerospace engineers design aircraft, spacecraft, satellites and missiles, according to the BLS. As technology became more in everyday life and got more advanced, two specialties emerged; astronautical engineering which designing aircraft which focuses on the design and development of spacecraft and aeronautical engineering, which involves designing aircraft. Aeronautical engineers are primarily involved in designing aircraft that fly within Earth’s atmosphere, while astronautical engineers work with the science and technology of spacecraft that fly outside Earth. The other side of aerospace engineering is rocketry and spacecraft. The most famous people in this field were Robert Goddard, who constructed and successfully launched the first liquid-fueled rocket and  Werner von Braun, who developed the first ballistic missile and went on to become the first director of NASA’s Marshall Flight Center. Aerospace Engineering seems like a fun and challenging career. In the future I would like to get into more research with this career and see what its more about.