NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Engineers test a Navy plane at NASA Dryden's flight loads lab. Image Credit: NASA

      the study of flight and the workings of aircraft

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The first 'A' in NASA stands for aeronautics.

One of the reasons NASA studies aeronautics is to learn how to make flight safer.

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