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Growing up in the 1980s watching science fiction TV series, it wasn’t hard to imagine a future where we would all be working and living in outer space. As an adult I realized that these fantasies were fictitious, right?
With recent technological advances, these childhood dreams may indeed come true. The UK government alone has forecast more than 100,000 space jobs over the next 5 to 10 years.
Both companies and governments can see the potential in space, which has been demonstrated by allocating funds to space scientists and innovators. If space is the final boundary, the question to ask is what spatial positions could you work at?
Space miners
Recently, the NASA-funded lunar research project has discovered evidence of water encased in mineral grains on the moon, which scientists believe originates deep within the moon’s interior. Our knowledge of the composition of planets is increasing as research on projects like magnetic water provides clues and new understanding of how planets formed.
The planetary geologist could play a vital role in future discoveries of minerals and ores that we could use on Earth. With Earth’s natural supply of coal and oil dwindling, our next step may be to extract and drill these resources on orbiting planets.
It is not just the fuel resources on the planets that we could extract. There is a chance of finding gold, starting a new space gold rush. Gold and silver are formed by merging within a star. When Earth was created after the Big Bang, other stars exploded, scattering heavy metals throughout the universe. If gold and silver were created in the core of the earth, everything would melt due to the intense heat, which means that after the earth solidified, the gold and silver would hit the earth in the form of a huge shower of asteroids. And if these asteroids hit Earth, they may have hit other nearby planets as well. Future generations might have the old gold mining job or “forty-nine” as they were originally called. The future gold rush will not see people searching for gold in streams; it will be a higher-tech operation using drilling and engineering technology.
Watchers of space
We have seen an increase in the number of satellites orbiting the Earth. These satellites are the eyes of the earth and save employers time and money. As an example, a construction project manager no longer needs to leave his office to see how the project is progressing. Instead, they can log into a website whose program is the satellite, submitting live images of how the project is progressing.
The Google team has seen the potential of space, and recently launched their Lunar X-PRIZE, where they want a private company to launch a rocket, land it safely on the surface of the Moon, make it travel 500 meters up, down. , or on the lunar surface, and finally send two “lunar projections” to Earth. The award is worth $ 40 million, which is an example of the type of investment that companies are committed to investing in the space sector.
Future space work will be asteroid observation. We know that asteroids killed the dinosaurs and we don’t want the same thing to happen to the human race. NASA recently announced that it will launch a reconnaissance telescope to search for near-Earth asteroids. These early warning systems can save thousands of lives should asteroids hit the earth. In the United States, President Obama has even outlined plans that could see astronauts land on an asteroid.
This paranoia is a real threat, last year more than 1,000 people were injured in Russia when a 40-ton meteor traveling at 33,000 mph exploded over a terrified city.
Space vacations
The space could be the next destination of the tourist. Virgin and Richard Branson are already at the forefront with this new industry, recently launching the world’s first space line: The Virgin Galactic.
This groundbreaking opportunity to spend a vacation in space as one of the first non-professional astronauts is a dream that can now be fulfilled. “The agreement with Mojave Aerospace Ventures is just the beginning of what we believe will be a new era in human history that will one day make affordable human exploration of space a real possibility.” Richard Branson.
This could be just the beginning. Soon we could be on vacation at Virgin space stations or booking accommodations on planets using advanced technologies to provide air and water.
Dennis Tito, the world’s first space tourist, recently launched a project to send a married couple into space to circulate the planet Mars, a journey that lasts 500 days. The trip costing more than £ 1 billion may not be a sightseeing trip you can afford in the future, but the investment again shows the commitment business leaders are having when it comes to space vacations.
Future space jobs
In the innovation and testing stage of any new technology and job sector, it means that we cannot accurately predict the future of these potential space jobs. All we know is that companies like Google, Virgin, and Dennis Tito are investing in space, which means they can see the potential that space can offer. As with inventions like the internet and cell phones, some skeptics may believe this is a fad, but the possibilities could be endless by changing the jobs we will be employed in, the way we live … or even the place. where we live.
