The Pacific Northwest is a hub for new technology investment and talent in the aerospace industry. It may have all started with Boeing a long time ago. The Boeing Company was one of the three lead contractors on the Saturn 5 Heavy lift rocket first flown in 1967. loading...

I remember it well because my dad was an aerospace engineer at Boeing at the time and worked on the Saturn 5 rocket main engine system. loading...

Many years later, other major companies started to be attracted to the Northwest like Amazon and Blue Origin. Currently, over 114,000 people in Washington state work in the aerospace industry; there are new players in the Northwest, and the infrastructure is there to help them.

According to Geekwire.com,

‘ The region is a humming ecosystem of space innovat

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