What type of person can work in space exploration?

What type of person can work in space exploration?

Colin Pillinger (Professor of Planetary Sciences) gives expert video advice on: Is it your life ambition to find life on other planets?; Who inspired you to search for extraterrestrial life? and more...

There are so many people who can be involved in space who don't necessarily know that they can be involved in space. The number of skills you need are enormous. No one person has all these skills. I'm an analytical scientist. I wanted to make analytical measurements to find out things, but in order to make those measurements, somebody had to get me to Mars. I could make those measurements in the lab, but I don't get all the answers I want. If you want to make those measurements, you have to recruit or work with people who can achieve and put you in a place where you want to be. You could, for example, in Antarctica, be somebody who studies penguins, but if there's not a helicopter pilot or a ship that takes you there, all you can do is look at the penguins in the zoo. This is the analogy: somebody has to facilitate your work in space.