Farmer needed to manage crop production at rocket test facility
The private space company founded by Elon Musk, the co-founder of PayPal, is advertising to fill a rather unusual role - a farmer with some rather lofty ambitions.
In a job advert that conjures up images of Matthew McConaughey’s farming space explorer in the film Interstellar, SpaceX says it is looking for a farmer with a rare mix of ‘drive, passion, scrappiness, intelligence and curiosity to seek what’s beyond the stars’.
However, candidates should not get their hopes up too much.
Rather than taking a key role producing food on the first colony on Mars, they will instead be harvesting crops on the land around the company’s 900 acre rocket base in MacGregor, Texas.
SpaceX insists, however, that the successful candidate will play a ‘direct role in advancing the course of human history’ and will join a team whose aim is to ‘pave the way to Mars’.
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