• Question: What advice do you have for aspiring space scientists?

    Asked by SHS 10C! to Anne, Beth, COLFlight, Jon, Tom on 6 Oct 2015.
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      Columbus Flight Directors answered on 6 Oct 2015:

      Sergio:
      My advice is to chose your school curricula based on the subjects that you really like, this is the only guarantee for success!
      Look at the 5 profiles, we all have studied completely different things and we still all managed to work as space scientists. So follow your passions and concentrate in your studies. And when you will be done with studying, if you still want that, you’ll find a way to apply what you’ve studied in the space world! 😉

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      Jonathan Scott answered on 7 Oct 2015:

      Sergio is right, space science covers a huge range of different topics, so there are many science pathways that could lead to a job as a space scientist. As a physiologist, I think it’s very important to keep an open mind and not be focused completely on space. The space environment affects so many human systems (muscle, bone, heart, blood vessels, the eyes, the immune system – the list goes on) that the solutions that we will need to achieve human deep space exploration will come from not one, but many different areas physiology – there are physiologists involved with the space programme today whose specialities we never anticipated we’d need, but their skills/knowledge are now vital in solving current problems.

    • Photo: Beth Healey

      Beth Healey answered on 8 Oct 2015:

      As the others say, follow your interests and don’t struggle with things you don’t find interesting because you think they will look good :).

      If you are interested in something generally you will be better at it and be successful. If you want something enough then there is always a way to get there!

      Good luck!!

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