![]() ![]() Taking STEM classes will help you tremendously. History being a liberal arts degree allows you to choose a very broad range of electives. You will need to meet the pre-requirements for graduate schools though. If you go to a school with good history program and get your degree with a high GPA then graduate school shouldn't be too difficult for you. ![]() Some may offer a path to get into the space industry. You can get into medical school for example. Many graduate programs will accept a history degree. A PhD is pretty much required to do anything in the field of history but a masters can be enough for many different fields. One thing that you can do with a history degree is easily go on to a further education. History majors need to be able to do research, analysis, and write clearly and concisely. It is a good degree though that will allow you to do many things. in history is not likely to get you into the space industry all on its own. Without those skills your options narrow considerably.Ī B.A. People who can write but don't have hard technical skills aren't in high demand in that industry. If at all possible, you should take more science and math courses and try to pursue a more technical path (electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, etc) as a way into the space industry. And again, there may be thousands of engineers but only one or two PR people at an aerospace company. but you have to be a people-person and have the knack for corporate-speak, and have the talent for obfuscating the truth (sorry, but that's what happens in the PR world) which many people don't. Several major newspapers/news outlets have science writers who focus on space topics (Bill Harwood of CBS News, James Dean of Florida Today, Kenneth Chang of the NY Times, etc.) However, there are not a lot of people making a living as science writers, so if you want to make a living that way you have to be both talented and lucky.Īnother career path is in public relations, ie writing press releases for companies like SpaceX, Orbital, etc. There will always be a place for science writers who focus on space. ![]() ![]() If you like English and want to write, you might consider journalism with a focus on technical subjects. If you want to work in the space industry, history is probably not the best choice of a major. And even if LEO space travel continues to be as hand held as a the average Everest ascent, there is no possibility of this at Mars, the asteroid belt, Jovian moons etc. Eventually it can't all be done with an engineer on air at some mission control hand holding each activity. Those who have to operate ECLSS systems, swap seats between two capsules, dock a dragon to a BA330 etc. I am saying that this will occur with space systems. Similarly with telephone exchanges (which I also worked on in the mid to late eighties) initial manuals (aimed at techs in telephone companies) were written by engineers, they were later written by professional writers resulting is less misunderstandings and calls to troubleshoot installation problems. It was found that IT people could understand the manuals better though, if they were written by writers than engineers. Those same people, in the next design round were the ones coding and then later designing, while new people wrote documentation until they were up to speed on the environment. So they documented them for the IT people who would operate them. If you are referring to the writers I was speaking about in the first part of the paragraph, they were the people who weren't trusted to design the operating system or imbedded apps of the IBM compatible cluster controllers. ![]()
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