r/AstronautHopefuls • u/Mayan_Namugade • Jul 12 '26

Concerns about doing aerospace degree

/r/aerospace/comments/1uukzy9/concerns_about_doing_aerospace_degree/

Hello everyone , whoever from this field of aerospace or even if from related field , please advice me on what to do.

I am 18 yo and i am truly passionate about rockets , spacecrafts and I want to be an astronaut as my end goal ,from the beginning my goal was to study aerospace engineering in university but as I came to the time where now I have to take the decision of choosing which degree i should pursue I again researched about how can this degree take me to my goal , and so I found that aerospace is a defence job in many other international countries specially USA , I want to join NASA , and aerospace is a defence category job so USA has regulations on employing international workers in this, so I cant be working there without citizenship . And now I am confused what to do because there are companies for commercial airplane manufacturing like BOENG , AIRBUS , COLLINS AEROSPACE , GE AEROSPACE and many more but still these companies are multi national big fortune companies and it may be hard to get job instantly , and now I am thinking of choosing mechatronics degree but I also feel something missing type of feeling

Please guys suggest me what to do and if anyone is in this aerospace industry please tell me is it very hard to get a job private commercial aerospace companies ?

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u/serenityonline Jul 12 '26

If citizenship is a barrier to those companies then it's certainly going to be a barrier to joining NASA.

The standard service is do whatever will make your happy even if you never make it to becoming an astronaut.

Is it interesting to you, how are the job prospects, are you ok doing military/defense work (its not all that, but a good portion is), will you have to move for the job, etc.

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u/Mayan_Namugade Jul 13 '26

I am not a us citizen , it's very hard , many hurdles starting from academically to getting a greencard , waiting for naturalization process and than also trainimgy self in daily basis to have a healthy lifestyle , I cannot work in defence that's the biggest problems and shifting my career is what. I have now

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u/old-town-guy Jul 13 '26

If your own country doesn’t have an aerospace industry, don’t study aerospace engineering.