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With all due respect to the rest of the world, California is still the home of all things aerospace. Every Aerospace corporation has tried to leave California for decades, but they realize the "brain drain" starts @ the state border and the design labs stay put.
The old long haired hippies who do the theoretical research & designs have yet to leave, but they are aging. Cal Tech is still a premier institute and JPL is full of those folks.
BTW, Flying and landing a pencil was invented by Space X , the rest of the world is still playing catch up