Are you bored of your current position and in need of an exciting new job? Are you a scientist, teacher, engineer, explorer, surveyor, farmer, technician, or geologist? If the answer to both questions is yes, then you should take a look at the latest opening from NASA. If the answer is no, then you should take a look at the most recent job openings at NASA. Either way, everybody will be given a chance to help build a Martian colony.
Some lucky few will get to be the first to explore the Red Planet.
With the European Space Agency, SpaceX, and a handful of other private contractors breathing down its neck, NASA is doing everything in its power to get to the Red Planet before anybody else.
To this extent, they have been investing a lot of resources not only in the development of a spacecraft that will take the first men to the planet but also in the study of the planet’s conditions.
Lately, researchers have been looking into dust storm patterns, atmosphere pressure, temperature variation, and other important factors that could affect the stay of the colonists.
This means that the Space Agency is serious about the 2023 manned mission. NASA is so sure that they will be ready by then, that they started advertising opened positions for colonists.
The new campaign is directed towards any person who wants an exciting new job on an alien planet. The colonists will be the builders of a new civilization, so the task is not easy, but it’s also one of the best jobs in the solar system.
Others will get to see if Matt Damon’s potato experiment is accurate.
According to the posters that the Space Agency released, explorers, night shift workers, surveyors, farmers, teachers, technicians, and assemblers are needed for the future Red Planet colony.
The design of the new posters is very retro. The colors remin viewers of the glory days of advertising back in 1950 when the Marlboro Man was considered the peak of marketing techniques.
One of the posters is particularly nostalgia-based. Remember the famous Uncle Sam poster? The one that became a popular culture reference? NASA reinterpreted it and replaced the bearded man in a stars and stripes suit with an astronaut pointing at the viewer telling him or her that “We Need You.”
The NASA astronaut is the new Uncle Sam.
The marketing for the job openings is exquisite, but applicants must remember that the exciting new job comes with harsh conditions, a rare atmosphere, and an overall dusty situation.
Images Courtesy of: NASA
