Space+Opportunities

There are some amazing opportunities in the Space industry at the moment. Many people believe it is a similar situation to the birth of the commercial air travel industry last century. Try visiting their websites and looking for career opportunities. Many of them want engineers, computer programmers, plus people with a wide range of other skills.

First up even New Zealand now has a commercial rocket for launching satellites:

Rocket Labs



Virgin Galactic is on the verge of taking paying passengers into space, using a launch system which requires dropping the rocket from a purpose built carbon-fibre composite plane:

Virgin Galactic



Space X is a brand new rocket company founded by Elon Musk. They have already supplied the Space Station using the Falcon 9 rocket and the Dragon capsule. The aim is to send people up in Dragon soon.

[|Space X]



Planetary Resources is a company set up to mine asteroids! Yes, the first stage is underway ... to locate and identify asteroids with useful minerals.

[|Planetary Resources]