How a Booming Space Economy Could Lead to Unprecedented Job Opportunities
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How a Booming Space Economy Could Lead to Unprecedented Job Opportunities
https://futurework.press/how-a-booming-space-economy-could-lead-to-unprecedented-job-opportunities/
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“Space exploration is no longer just for astrophysicists and aerospace engineers; it’s increasingly becoming a wide-open field with opportunities for anyone to explore.
Space Tech startups like **SpaceX**, **Blue Origin**, and **Virgin Galactic** have been instrumental in driving this growth. Their companies have made significant strides in developing reusable rockets, lowering launch costs, and opening up space to a broader range of activities. These advancements have paved the way for a growing space tourism industry, with Virgin Galactic already offering suborbital flights and Blue Origin planning to launch its own space tourism service.
The space economy encompasses a wide range of activities, including satellite launches, space tourism, asteroid mining, and in-orbit manufacturing. As the sector matures, it’s creating a growing demand for unprecedented roles.”
I don’t see how there’s any profit other than satellites and science missions primarily funded by governments.
There’s still absolutely no need for space mining and seemingly no real potential for space, tourism or colonization other than a colony big enough to support a small team researchers at any given time whom will probably be entirely replaced by robots due to such hostile conditions
I don’t see the upward potential because you’re not going to overcome low gravity, space mining is way more expensive, things are way too spread out for our propulsion speeds and radiation and other environmental hazards like very fine dust all make that worse than like living at the bottom of the ocean.
The BIG boom is just a couple nations a Setting up a few small short term science outposts which will inevitably get replaced by robots that don’t suffer from being involved for a couple billion years just for earth.
It’s a worthy goal to try to explore Mars and figure out how the solar system and maybe life started, but at the same time it isn’t going anywhere and there’s no rush because the value is in the preserved record of the solar system, not in expanding human production to a place that’s super hostile and doesn’t have any resources.
no that makes no sense. Entropy and energy are a thing. Mass and gravity are a thing. Explain how, without releasing CO2, you are going to get anything at all done in space?
Can’t wait to be shipped out into space to mine a rock surrounded by death at every turn for minimum wage.
This kind of mentality is just a disease of capitalism. Infinite growth for who?
I’ve been applying for space jobs for 10+ years now. The only way you get hired is if you know someone
Would it though? If this were 50 years ago with a new industry, I would say “for sure” but now we are focused on doing things with the minimal (target is sub min) number of people to do it. The companies they would buy parts/have things fabricated with would be the same. So you would have a little bump if there were consistent fabrication demands, a little bump for operations, but this wouldn’t be like WWII ship building where you have legions of workers getting craft out the door daily for years on end.
The only “boom” we’ve got going on are billionaires having pissing contests, eager to slap their names on planetary bodies and pretend they belong to only them.
No, if we are to make a big push to space, it needs to be at the international level. Granted, thatdoesn’t fully solve the problem and comes with its own set of issues, but I’d rather Humanity’s push into space be driven by science and exploration, supplied by industry. We don’t want our push into space being driven by corporate greed. [Cause that’s](https://expanse.fandom.com/wiki/Belter) [how you.](https://expanse.fandom.com/wiki/Outer_Planets_Alliance) [get Belters.](https://tenor.com/bkX6W.gif)