I’m not too well-versed on the specifics of RL’s business and am rusty on US spaceflight conventions but are they a viable option for USSF or NASA since they’re based in NZ?

>sophomore year of high school

just how do you feel about math and how are your grades in it? Plenty of engineering or physics students are ambivalent at best about math until Calculus, which is where it starts to get fun. And if your skills aren’t outstanding but still solidly hovering around a B, then you probably have nothing to worry about.

I say this not to discount what others have said about working in a non-math area, just to provide my own take on your supposed inability to study engineering or physics.

I once heard “if NASA could get to space using a rocket made of wood and duct tape they would.”