Astronaut

From Wallace and Gromit’s Grand Day Out to Neil Armstrong and Tim Peake, this is a career for dreamers! Astronauts are high-level scientists who travel through space.

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Fun fact

Astronauts may live a life most of us can only dream of, but they also need to go to the toilet just like everyone else! And the absence of gravity obviously complicates things slightly. On board the ISS (International Space Station), astronauts have to use high-end toilets that cost up to $20 million each. Once carefully sealed in airtight bags, their solid excrement is ejected into space and burns up as it enters the Earth’s atmosphere. Think about that the next time you see a shooting star...

Skills

Hard skills

  • Types of satellites
  • Civil aviation regulations
  • Embedded systems
  • Geostationary satellites
  • Communicate in english in a competent way
  • Celestial navigation
  • Launching of satellites into orbit
  • Geographic information systems

Soft skills

  • Analytical prediction
  • Systemic perception
  • Formulation of opportunities

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