Astronaut training in high school

The space industry is one of the fastest growing fields! When you think of space, the first thing that comes to mind is astronauts and rockets, but that's not the only thing that the space industry is associated with.

As an example, we can look at the first man on the moon. It took eight years and 400,000 employees - engineers, logistics specialists, chemists, physicists, economists, lawyers and many other industry representatives - from John F. Kennedy's announcement of the ambition to "land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth" to the first man stepping on the moon.

In the next 20 years flights to the moon will become ordinary. The space industry will need many different specialists. Engineers, mechatronics, programmers, data analysts will be among the most important, as well as biologists, doctors and chemists.

In addition to learning STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) subjects at school, you can attend various interest education centers and clubs.

If there are five more young people in your school who are interested in or good at STEM studies, you are already one step closer to the space industry! You can participate in the CanSat campaign and build your first micro-satellite at school.

The Space Intelligence Center together with the European Space Agency is organizing a campaign to build microsatellites. Follow the CanSat 2024/25 campaign on the Space Intelligence Center networks - https://ej.uz/CanSatKampana

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