A UK university student visits Reaction Engines Limited and asks about the skills and training needed for someone interested in a career in the space industry: Space… it doesn’t have to be your final frontier! – Moving On magazine

Moving On: What is the space engineering industry like as a whole? Is it quite a big community?

Anthony Haynes: The space industry isn’t very well known, because the UK has never developed its own consistent launch system. A lot of people think because there aren’t regular rockets taking off that the UK must have a small space industry and that if you want to be an astronaut, you have to be American. But we have a healthy state of satellite technology in particular.

At Reaction Engines Ltd we have employed quite a lot of people through knowing them already, with us being part of a small team – how we work together is really crucial.

That’s why networking and space societies are so useful.