Grumman Aerospace Corporation

Grumman Aerospace Corporation traces to the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, established on December 6, 1929, by Leroy Grumman and three business partners and officially opened on January 2, 1930. The company built naval fighter aircraft including the F4F Wildcat, F6F Hellcat and TBF Avenger during the Second World War, and later produced jet aircraft such as the F-14 Tomcat and A-6 Intruder. Its defining spaceflight achievement came as chief contractor on the Apollo Lunar Module, the first spacecraft to land humans on the Moon: Grumman received the contract on November 7, 1962, built thirteen lunar modules, and saw six of them land successfully on the lunar surface. After the end of the Cold War brought reduced defense spending, Northrop bought Grumman in 1994 for 2.1 billion dollars to form Northrop Grumman, ending the independent company sixty five year history. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/