Hello Emerging Tech Careers In the past In the present Groundbreaking inventions made life easier in many ways New technologies are changing the world in mind-boggling ways The future is yours to imagine WHAT COMES NEXT 4
Who would have thought Alexander Graham Bell invented the first telephone in 1876 In 1879 Thomas Edison invented the first electric lightbulb The Wright brothers successfully flew the first airplane in 1903 And don’t forget Henry Ford He invented a way to make cars quicker and cheaper These brilliant inventors did things that people once thought were impossible To go from candles to electricity From horse-drawn carriages to automobiles and airplanes Wow The sky’s the limit Now technology is being used to do even more amazing things Take personal space travel for instance Forget going to the beach One day you may be able to vacation on Mars or take a sightseeing trip to the moon Private companies like SpaceX are already making the world say wow with impressive commercial rocket launches This book explores the people and professions behind personal space travel The idea that businesses and even individuals might one day blast off into space is adding an exciting new twist to careers like astronaut and aerospace engineer Read on to explore exciting possibilities for your future 5
Aerospace Engineer It is February 6 2018 The rocket sits on the launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida The countdown begins 10 9 8 But wait This isn’t a NASA rocket It is the Falcon Heavy the heaviest rocket ever built so far It was built by a private company called SpaceX It has a red convertible Tesla on board and it’s about to make history 6
An engineer applies math and science to solve real-life problems Aerospace engineers design build and test aircraft and spacecraft Engineers are critical to the success or failure of any personal space travel project Aerospace engineers fall into two categories Some create and test craft that remain in Earth’s atmosphere such as the jet airplane They are called aeronautical engineers Others focus on craft that zoom into space They are known as astronautical engineers There is a huge difference between the two Those who work on rockets missiles and other spacecraft solve different kinds of problems That is because the atmosphere in space is unlike Earth’s atmosphere One example is the lack of airflow in space Jet engines require the air in our atmosphere in order to function Jet engines work well within Earth’s atmosphere But they could never 7 Imagine It D Find a photo online that shows a rocket ship on a launchpad about to lift off D Get a large sketch pad and a variety of colored pencils D Draw what you see Make it as detailed as possible Dig Deeper J The most famous space mission was Apollo 11 That American mission in 1969 sent astronauts to the moon for the first time Read about it in Moonshot The Flight of Apollo 11 by Brian Floca New York Atheneum 2009 J Or read about the history of flight Flight A DK Eyewitness Book by Andrew Nahum New York DK Publishing 2011
