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What degree should I pursue if I want to work for a space agency? Is astronomy or physics good choice or is it too theoretical and I should choose engineering? If yes, then what field?

>> No.10580887

>>10580879

Computers.

>> No.10580914

>>10580879

doesn't matter. just make DAMN SURE you can math and code good and get a 4.0 gpa or join the air force if brainlet.

>> No.10580921

>>10580879
What's more important is where you get it from. Go to UC berkley and get literally any stem degree and you can get a space job if you work hard enough.

>> No.10580922

Complex math isn't important for most Computational Sciences degrees.

>> No.10580924

>>10580879
>want to work for a space agency
You'll have to elaborate, that's a pretty board term. You might have to be well versed with special relativity and spectrometry shit, in which case engineering would be out of the question

>> No.10580925

>>10580879
Physics and aeroespacial engineering double major

>> No.10580927

>>10580922
Orbulon misread the question. Mathematics is of utmost importance for any kind of space agency employment.

>> No.10580979

Please realize that foreign space companies can only hire people from their own country so if you aren't American, Chinese or Russian you are basically fucked.

Even in the EU you have to work for your own country and it's one of the only cases where Schengen and single market doesn't apply for state security reasons.

I have an aeronautics and rocket engineering degree yet I am relegated to work on bullshit Airbus aviation stuff because my small european country does almost nothing with space and I don't want to get US citizenship purely to work at one of the space companies there.

>> No.10581016

>>10580979
Which country are you from? Do you think you could get a job for NASA if you got US citizenship?

>> No.10581021

>>10580979
>Even in the EU you have to work for your own country and it's one of the only cases where Schengen and single market doesn't apply for state security reasons.
Utter bullshit

>> No.10581366

>>10580879
Physics - it gives you a good fallback position if a career at a space agency falls through. The job market for astronomers is brutal.

>> No.10581529

>>10580879
Nothing would be "too theoretical" for such a job. Generally, once you get to a high enough level, people assume you know how to port your skills to unfamiliar problems well enough.

>> No.10581530

>>10580879
>work for a space agency

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/langley/nasa-awards-contract-for-custodial-services-at-langley-research-center

>> No.10581539

>>10580879
Grow up.

>> No.10581554

>>10580879
Geophysics with plenty of experience with computers and remote data collection

>> No.10581570

hehe me like space me rocket man clap clap clap

>> No.10581582

>>10580879
Computer Science, Physics, Applied Mathematics, basically any Engineering field except bio-med, if you can get into a school that offers one, maybe an Aerospace engineering program?

Really anything STEM that's tangentially related to the aerospace industry would do just fine, even ones you don't directly think of as relevant like electrical engineering, or comp sci.