Space careers: not just astronauts

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Few fly to space, but hundreds of thousands work for it on Earth: rocket and satellite engineers, onboard software programmers, flight controllers, astrophysicists, space doctors, suit designers. In Europe that is ESA — astronaut centre in Cologne, mission control in Darmstadt. The real road to space starts with physics and maths.

●Rocket engineer: physics + maths + design
●Satellite programmer: code that must never crash
●Flight controller: steers probes from Earth
●Astrophysicist: studies stars, planets, black holes

🎓 First German in space: Sigmund Jähn (1978, GDR). First German woman: Rabea Rogge on the Fram2 mission (2025). Aerospace is taught at TU Munich, Uni Stuttgart and RWTH Aachen.

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