We look forward to an interesting hour. Good afternoon - We are ready to begin our chat with Linda Bangert. If you submitted a question earlier you will need to resubmit it now that we have begun. I am a junior in high school and am in the process of choosing a college to pursue a degree in aerospace engineering. If you are interested in a particular specialty, like flight testing, you might look for that in a specific department.
Every launch is still unique in some aspects.
It is hard to pin down, since my Dad was a pilot, I knew that ordinary people could be pilots from a young age. I didn't decide on Aeronautical Engineering for a career until I was already in college. Read my profile for the whole story. I think that is pretty much true regardless of profession. This means that you don't necessarily have to be an Aeronautical Engineer to work on airplanes.