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<blockquote data-quote="thoughtgypsy" data-source="post: 959595" data-attributes="member: 571"><p>Haha, well technically not a rocket scientist.&nbsp; Usually Aerospace and Mechanical engineers fill that role.&nbsp; NASA is also made up of other engineering disciplines like electrical (which handle power generation and transmission, communications, control systems, remote sensing), Systems engineering (which handle integration of the various systems, weight budgets, etc), and chemical and material engineering.&nbsp; There are also other fields that are of various interest in other missions such as geology and meteorology (for science missions), applied mathematicians (for calculating the orbital dynamics and flight paths of missions, or for calculating astronomical phenomena), physicists, chemists, and so on.&nbsp; You'd be surprised how many college students rotate through NASA as a result of their internship and CO OP programs.&nbsp; Most impressive of all are the Test Pilots.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="thoughtgypsy, post: 959595, member: 571"] Haha, well technically not a rocket scientist. Usually Aerospace and Mechanical engineers fill that role. NASA is also made up of other engineering disciplines like electrical (which handle power generation and transmission, communications, control systems, remote sensing), Systems engineering (which handle integration of the various systems, weight budgets, etc), and chemical and material engineering. There are also other fields that are of various interest in other missions such as geology and meteorology (for science missions), applied mathematicians (for calculating the orbital dynamics and flight paths of missions, or for calculating astronomical phenomena), physicists, chemists, and so on. You'd be surprised how many college students rotate through NASA as a result of their internship and CO OP programs. Most impressive of all are the Test Pilots. [/QUOTE]

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