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AMERICAN SPACE INDUSTRY

NASA

SpaceX
SpaceX Rockets SpaceX Dragon
Firefly
Firefly Rockets Firefly Blue Ghost
Blue Origin
Blue Origin Rockets
The United States of America are undoubtedly a space nation; having landed the
first person on the moon back in the 1960s, and working on space exploration
since, and with the Congress and Donald Trump, former US-president, having
founded the US Space Force on December 20, 2019, a branch of the US armed
services showing the United States' interests in staying a dominant nation in
space. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, is provided with
the world-wide highest budget: $19.95 Billion dollars each year in 2019. In
2021, the budget rose up to $23.2 Billion With this budget, NASA does not only
build their own rockets, space hardware and program their own software; they do
also fund (non-)governmental companies, organizations and institutions putting
efforts into making space more achievable: The range of NASA-funded contracts
reaches from launching hardware into space and providing systems for lunar
landings to microbiological research organizations and educational institutions
like universities.

Apollo 11 crew member Buzz Aldrin - Apollo 16 crew member John Young saluting
the flag on the moon


Source: NASA/Charlie Duke | NASA History

Since NASA retired the Space Shuttle after the Challenger and Columbia disasters
in 1986 and 2003, they have not had an own rocket capable of sending payload to
orbit, so (especially for the ISS-missions) they relied on the Russian
Soyuz-program. However, since May 30, 2020, astronauts are able to launch into
space from american soil with rockets built in America: SpaceX, a private
company founded by Elon Musk, provide their Falcon 9 rocket and Crew-capsule
named "Dragon" to NASA-astronauts to fly to the ISS.

Challenger disaster (January 28, 1986)
Columbia disaster (February 1, 2003)
On this website, you can see a small excerpt of the funding NASA provides to
several companies, focussing vehicles able to launch from earth to orbit or to
land, e.g., on the moon or on mars.