... and to have a farmer around when discussing food production in their future colonies. Or for the actual colonisation part.The early history of the colonization of the americas is called "the starving time" because they sent too many goldsmiths and almost no one with farming experience. I guess SpaceX doesn't want to replicate that mistake.
The open land around the launch site needs to be maintained. If let alone, it would grow wild and attract critters. They could spray it and kill everything, or they could use it productively. That would enhance the site's image and probably be viewed favorably in the community. They could donate the food and write off the farming activity. It might even garner tax advantages. Of course, they might be looking forward toward their methalox engine and want to grow the bio feed stock for methane production—rocket fuel.
This posting sounds like it's for the test site, not the launch site.
Any idea why they want to hire a farmer instead of renting the land to a local farmer?
Be patient people, rockets are hard.
This thread is just nonsense. All this fuss because of a farmer job posting? Are we going to have a similar thread for when they post landscaping jobs for mowing the grass too? This is nothing out of the ordinary, KSC still has active orchards that are leased to producers. Just because it has Spacex on it, somebody has to make a big deal of it. If spaceflight is suppose to be routine, then don't make a big of deal of routine items.
Uh I don't think this has anything to do with SpaceX. If Boeing did the same or NASA did the same I think a post would also appear for those. I had not heard that KSC had orchards.
