Hmmm... Are you young enough to apply for the astronaut program? In and of itself, it wouldn't fulfill all your goals, but being an astronaut would give you tremendous cachet and the ability to pretty much write your own ticket after you'd been in the program for 4 or 5 years.
That was a dream of mine when I was little, before I figured out I was a small girl with bad eyes. How old must one be to apply? Are they ok with imperfect eyesight and the very beginnings of cartilage degeneration in the knee? I vaguely remember imperfect eyesight might be okay for "Mission Specialist", but for that, an applicant wants a few disparate PhDs.
If that wouldn't do it for you, how about something like Industrial Engineering, where you study processes and find ways to make them better?
Yes. That's helpful and intellectually challenging, both. Also, something psychological, where I study people and find ways to make their interactions better... got a lot of learning to do on that one though.
Or maybe you could do the Kelly McGillis (really Catherine McGrady) thing from Top Gun and go teach the hotshots how to fly the edge of the envelope?
That'd be awesome. Flight instructor, mmm. Aerobatics instructor, extra mmm. Oh hey. Test pilot. (May want an aero/astro degree for that one.)
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That was a dream of mine when I was little, before I figured out I was a small girl with bad eyes. How old must one be to apply? Are they ok with imperfect eyesight and the very beginnings of cartilage degeneration in the knee? I vaguely remember imperfect eyesight might be okay for "Mission Specialist", but for that, an applicant wants a few disparate PhDs.
If that wouldn't do it for you, how about something like Industrial Engineering, where you study processes and find ways to make them better?
Yes. That's helpful and intellectually challenging, both. Also, something psychological, where I study people and find ways to make their interactions better... got a lot of learning to do on that one though.
Or maybe you could do the Kelly McGillis (really Catherine McGrady) thing from Top Gun and go teach the hotshots how to fly the edge of the envelope?
That'd be awesome. Flight instructor, mmm. Aerobatics instructor, extra mmm. Oh hey. Test pilot. (May want an aero/astro degree for that one.)