Aerospace Design.

ABSTRACT: Aerospace design is crucial to the development and manufacturing of aircraft and spacecraft. Since the introduction of aircraft in the nineteenth century, aerospace design has led to the production of countless flight vehicles, including spacecraft used for space exploration. Aerospace design involves a design process, which may take several years to complete. The phases of this process typically are system/mission requirements, conceptual design, preliminary design, and critical design. With spacecraft, the design generally includes major components such as the mission payload and the platform. The design of the Space Shuttle is one good example.