There are a lot of people who work at nasa who aren't engineers and scientists. There are people who build things, finance people, PR people, business management, HR, contracts, facilities, legal, maintenance, environmental, health&safety, pipefitters, plumbers, electricians, probably even carpenters- you name it. You'd be hard pressed to find a career that isn't applicable to a giant company like nasa. Find what you're good at and make it work.

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Not everyone at NASA is a rocket scientist. There are people that manage the rocket scientists and keep them within budget. There are people that assemble and fuel the rockets. There are administration people that write letters and emails about the rockets. There are historians that write about the old rockets and public relations folks that talk about the new rockets.

If working at NASA is your goal, you have an incredible amount of options. Also: math is stupid.

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Quality of the math teacher and how they teach makes a huge difference!!! Don’t give up!

Also, not being wonderful at math in high school doesn't mean you won't do well at it in college. It depends on how much you are willing to work at it.

Yes!! So many different needs at a large institution

Great sentiment here....well done

With the current climate and knowing the Russian culture around people like Lance, I would run the other way if I were him.

Meteorites are meteoroids that have impacted the Earth. Meteors are meteoroids that have burned up (or are burning) in the atmosphere.

My buddy is the art director. He makes all the badges.

There are other ways to get involved. All businesses have the same functional needs, just varying degrees of them.

There are accountants, creatives, lawyers, and a ton of scientists at NASA. Keep your chin up. Get creative about your career path.

so real

Be more flexible with your dream.

Sorry, fam.

Look for other things you are interested in. Space can be a super-fulfilling hobby as much as a career.

Uuuhhh...wow! I had no idea it was that many daily.

Well thanks for that info. That's awesome!

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Around 25 million meteors hit Earth's atmosphere every day. Most are not visible, but on a dark night it's not uncommon to see 5-10 visible meteors per hour from wherever you happen to be.

These are not being tracked. It would be nearly impossible to do so.

They cracked the code. For Artemis they helped put together the "National Team" along with Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and many others. They figured out how to shmooze and lobby with the best of the best in the aerospace biz. Now they're a major sub-contractor for ULA and they've got their hooks into all the juicy government contracts.

This is by far the coolest thing I've read in a long time!!!

"Under DARPA's Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) program, the agencies plan on launching a spacecraft powered by a Nuclear Thermal Reactor (NTR) engine in Earth orbit by 2027."

The DRACO name alone is cool as shit..

One issue I have is how tf did Blue Origin get a contract... What have they proven to even get mentioned as a company worth contracting with?

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wasn't it because his investors backed out and he couldn't afford it? Not so much kicked out but ran into money troubles.

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“In the year 2000 Lance Bass will come back from Russia saying it was all a joke! ….he was never a dancer or a singer.”

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There is a way to know, we exist. Not only do we exist there are millions of species on a single planet.

It's either God is real or there are other beings in the universe.