How can a 17 year old Jamaican  with designs and ideas for new space vehicles  get them to NASA to get help?
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You can contact NASA. Make sure your idea is presentable, plausible, and is based on some scientific ideas.  You say your designs have been tested. Can you test them again? Make a video, and publish it on the internet. Just dont give away your 'engineering secrets' to protect your ideas.
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Absolutely, I may be in my 40's but. When I was in high school we still had a rocket club and even the kids who weren't in the club would show up for the launches some good some not so good. It is fun and educational. I'm glad to hear that rocket making is still alive and well in schools. I have seen many from easy to very complicated, it was great fun and competition. Mostly it was guys that were in the Rocket Club, but the age range was from 9th to 12th grade. You can get pretty technical about it. Once you start, it's like any other project or hobby....ADDICTING. good for your friend I hope he does well and enjoys learning this great art. It's not as easy as it looks.
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Even my aim is the same.\nAt last i'm elated that ive found a friend from my own country.\nWhen i asked a counsellor, he advised me to take up:\n1.BSc,MSc and PhD in physics or\n2.B.Tech,M.Tech,PhD.\nand then Apply at Nasa's Web Site: www.nasa.gov\nBut its too early for me to decide as i'm only in Class 11 now.\nBest of luck to u.
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Try and get as fit as possible, study hard and apply to a good college and try to get a relevant engineering degree. Electronics and Communications are good choices, but I would suggest Aerospace as it has a lot to do with spacecraft and such (I'm an aerospace student myself and I hope to get into NASA someday).
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telescope,book on subject,carl sagan,call nasa,go see johnson space center,or you serious,most will just use thisQ:, to get 2 pt.s,not me i work for my 2.if uwant it do not give up,get help on yo quest.you,ll be lucky if some like a expert on space, see,s yourQ:,but ask it ovtin.
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I think they can if they are mature enough to handle it.  I personally wouldn't. I see you enough at home...I have to see you here too? People DO need space weather they think they do or not.
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Where does one sign up?  Is there a line yet? What time does the office where you have to sign up open?\n\ni.e. yep, I'd go in a heartbeat.\n\nWrite your congressman.  Tell them to have NASA build the "Orion" spacecraft.  About the best use of nuclear bombs that I can think of.\nTo clarify some other answerers' thinking.  Yes, from earth perspective, ship travel time on truly intergalactic ships would be millions of years.  However, relativistic effects would make it a "ship time" of less than a human lifetime.  Orion could not achieve these effects and would only be good for staying inside our own galaxy.  Some British aerospace engineers came up with an idea of a ship they called [I think] Daedalus that would achieve speeds of approx 80% c easily causing relativistic effects aboard ship.
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How about getting him interested in some D.I.Y. and get him a power tool. Then he can do something useful and at the same time feel the satisfaction of a new found ability..
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i want to be an astronaut!
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Try this:\nhttp://www.braeunig.us/space/
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Really! It breaks my heart to see this question.\nWhy are 17 years old asked to decide on such questions, when their decisions will actually shape their future lives?\n\nThose who really know what they want to achieve in life are fortunate. But how can a teenager know about all of the various options available, and which one is better one for him/her?\n\nYou should follow your heart instead of going for what people claim to have good scope. But how can someone really know what they want to do at 17? Ok Napolean knew that!\n\nMy friend really likes analog ckt. design( He is in last yr., Electronics) but he'll have to go to US for MS, and jobs in this area have not yet been created in India.\n\nIt all dependson what fascinates you. If you like Machines etc. perhaps you could go for mechanical. Atleast in mechanical, youcan see directly, the effects of your action! In Electronics, you don't know how electrons are going to move. 1 volt extra, and your transistor moves from saturation to cutoff. Andyour ckt.wont work.\n\nElectrical is nice, you could also go for communication.\n\nSoftware is not bad, and lots of ppl opt for it.\n\nI heard something about Bachelor of Design, but don't know what its prospects are.\n\n\nAnd then, some branches are better taught in some colleges , so either decide a college,or a branch, cos, the branch you want might notbe available in the college you like, and the branch available in your dream school might not be what you want ( But reputation of the college  might be enough to get you good placements).
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get really good grades and get into a really good engineering school.  see what colleges have interns or alumni at NASA to help you get a foot in the door.  NASA is an extremely hard company to get into. good luck
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If his children are of school age, maybe send a letter to Olympia school system and to the Olympia police department.  You may get some a helpful response, or maybe they can forward your letter to someone who can help.\n\nAlso, maybe you can send a letter to his next door neighbors.  Maybe they will write back with information where he has moved.\n\nIn your letter, I wouldn't include that he is "lost in space"  "Lost in space" is very confusing words to Americans.  Try to use different words, and describe him missing in a different way.\n\nAlso, I think it is very irresponsible of you to put your brother's personal information up in Yahoo answers for everyone to see.  Very bad to post his story here.
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Ah.. Get back with us if a few years..... lol\nThen we'll KNOW the answer.\n\nBut I would think #3.  Mount a rocket motor on it. It's got a lot of mass to get moving with the other methods not being, today, that efficient.
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use the CD the ecfmg sends you...and try  getting the NMS questions.....they are pretty good....
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The Canadian Space agency web site should be your best bet.  Here is the link to the Canadarm 2 web page, with many linked pages that can be accessed.
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