Manned space travel.

hadsed
Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:23:14 +0000

If you’re interested in helping humans adapt to space travel and microgravity, you could work in research geared towards creating synthetic DNA and proteins. There was a recent breakthrough about a month ago or less at Princeton where they made the very first artificial proteins with completely different materials than those that are used in nature. Genetics would probably be your interest there.

There’s lots you can do, like RacinReaver said. You can work on the control systems, computers, shielding materials, optical instruments, acoustics and vibrations analysis, engines, and that’s just a couple of things.