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Cracking the shell of a hard-science dominated sector: my experience as a young political scientist presenting research at a space tech conference - by Sam Arne Whalley
Having spent years aspiring to enter the space sector as a political scientist, when, at 20 years old, an associate of mine staunchly declared that 99% of jobs in the sector are just for hard scientists , to say I was simply disappointed would have been an understatement.
I was in the midst of a bachelor s degree in International Relations, and had recently been elected one of the youngest ever Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society in London as a result of my writings on matters related to Green Space Politics, particularly focusing on the worsening state of the so-called Orbital Space Debris Crisis . I had always been fascinated by space, and by growing up in what can arguably be considered as the Second Space Age, with near constant exposure to the multitude of technological develo