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Anonymous Sat Jan 8 00:10:14 2011 No.2314726 [Reply] [Original]

Alright I have a an actual serious question here.
How do I get into space?
What would I have to major in college to potentially do it and who would I work for?
and how difficult is majoring as an aerospace engineer?

>>	Barack !446r2OBAMA Sat Jan 8 00:11:14 2011 No.2314736 Do you own a calculator? If so, you already have an engineering degree.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 00:11:14 2011 No.2314730 rockets and sperm

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 00:17:14 2011 No.2314756 >>2314726 fuck you nigger. I'm going to be an astronaut before you. seriously. don't compete with me asshole

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 00:19:14 2011 No.2314768 File: 8 KB, 674x433, 1292186781337.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2314756 Don't make me

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 00:20:14 2011 No.2314771 >>2314768 You think I'm joking. I'm seriously going to kill anyone competing with me

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 00:21:14 2011 No.2314777 >>2314726 Go back to bed, Poland.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 00:22:14 2011 No.2314780 >>2314777 But my name is not Poland nor do I live in Poland.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 00:23:14 2011 No.2314786 Joining the air force would be a good start. Or just make lots of money so you can go when it become commercial.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 00:23:14 2011 No.2314787 File: 24 KB, 404x267, 1294022665626.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2314771 You went a little too far there [spoiler]John.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 00:23:14 2011 No.2314788 >>2314771 Well then, I see you on the battlefield, in half a decade or so.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 00:25:14 2011 No.2314796 >>2314787 >>2314788 Try 15 years. I'm in college atm. And my name isnt John. John is for faggots.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 00:25:14 2011 No.2314798 technically you ARE in space. Easy huh?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 00:26:14 2011 No.2314799 File: 136 KB, 428x510, 1282077743187.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2314777 Germany here. >my face when

Anonymous Sat Jan 8 00:28:14 2011 No.2314809

>>2314726

Get an engineering or hard science degree. Then get your doctorate in something like that. Then work your ass of doing inventive work. Then be physically fit by age 40.

People have gone to space without being engineers though.

See:

Doctors
Teachers (LOL why)
Geologists
Meterologists
Anything Earth or Human health related

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 00:31:14 2011 No.2314816 >>2314809 To add to this. Wayne State University and the University of Texas at Austin have programs designed around Aerospace Medicine.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 00:32:14 2011 No.2314818 You have no hope of becoming an astronaut. Instead, become a millionaire and buy a ticket.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 00:36:14 2011 No.2314833 File: 45 KB, 292x292, 1292189479760.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2314818 If I could I would. But I am seriously contemplating becoming a pilot of some sort, as that's as close to being an astronaut as I will get.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 00:41:14 2011 No.2314849 >>2314833 >>2314833 competition here: yeah do that. You dont even like the thought of being in a vacuum anyway. SHIT I cannot wait to have an underground house on the moon.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 00:43:14 2011 No.2314861 File: 3 KB, 443x383, 1292187736597.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2314849 >mfw your moon base gets teleported to "furry" world because of an accidental laser sent from the Chinese.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 00:44:14 2011 No.2314871 >>2314861 >>2314861 >implying science captcha: Istill MISSING

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 00:45:14 2011 No.2314877 >>2314799 Does Germany have a space program? I know they built US rockets (lol), but like only 4 countries have gone into sapce.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 00:48:14 2011 No.2314895 >>2314877 esa nigger get with the pogram (not sp?).

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 00:49:14 2011 No.2314897 >mfw americans still think they have a chance to be astronauts when their government canceled their manned space program

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 00:50:14 2011 No.2314907 >>2314897 God damnit, I kinda regret not voting for Hillary now, I mean she was a bitch, but at least she wasn't a compromiser. We would get so far ahead in space if it wasn't for our fucking huge military budget.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 00:53:14 2011 No.2314921 >>2314897 >>2314897 >mfw Elon Musk is our new de facto Space Flight Administrator. >get the fuck out of here faggot captcha: you Poseir

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 00:58:14 2011 No.2314945 >>2314907 >We would get so far ahead in space if it wasn't for our fucking huge military budget. >mfw you actually fucking believe that

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 01:00:14 2011 No.2314957 >>2314921 >mfw you think private companies are going to make you an astronaut.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 01:01:14 2011 No.2314959 >>2314877 Germany is too busy being rednecks

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 01:02:14 2011 No.2314962 File: 25 KB, 258x300, canintospace.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2314777 >implying Poland hasn't already into space

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 01:06:14 2011 No.2314978 >>2314962 only on the back of Russian labor! Comrades!

Anonymous Sat Jan 8 01:10:14 2011 No.2314994

- Attend a prestigious undergraduate institution, preferably the Air Force Academy or the best school you can get into with an AFROTC program, which you will need a scholarship from.
- Graduate with honors in Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering and enter into the Astronaut Pipeline (You will need vision correctable to 20/20 for this).
- Pass flight training with highest honors. It is crucial that you dominate this stage or you will end up stuck as a pilot.
- Qualify for what is essentially pre-Astronaut training. This is essentially the waiting stage.
- Get called up for formal astronaut training. You'll be more than ready for this.
- Become a formal Astronaut. More waiting ensues.
- Go into space and thank anonymous for all its support over the years.

Good luck out there. Polite sage for "not your life/career counselors".

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 01:26:14 2011 No.2315062 >>2314994 Alright, thanks. The sage is forgivable this time.

Anonymous Sat Jan 8 06:10:14 2011 No.2315851

>>2314726
> How do I get into space? What would I have to major in college to potentially do it and who would I work for?
Business.
Major in business, become president of a fortune 500 company, commission a rocket ship, bribe the government into letting you launch it, then fly.
It's your only chance, bro.

>>	Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. Sat Jan 8 06:21:14 2011 No.2315881 File: 269 KB, 1164x699, 1280906662901.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2314945 No, he's right.

Anonymous Sat Jan 8 06:25:14 2011 No.2315897

>>2314994
I used to want to be an Astronaut until I did some research and realized that the kind of people who become astronauts are the elite throughout their entire lives. I could never hope to compete. I'm just not made of the same time. It's humbling more than it is disappointing. They're truly cut from a different cloth.

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