{"id":17366,"date":"2022-07-18T18:07:20","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T10:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/after-flying-with-spacex-citizen-astronaut-chris-sembroski-joins-blue-origin-as-engineer\/"},"modified":"2022-07-18T18:07:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T10:07:20","slug":"after-flying-with-spacex-citizen-astronaut-chris-sembroski-joins-blue-origin-as-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/after-flying-with-spacex-citizen-astronaut-chris-sembroski-joins-blue-origin-as-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"After flying with SpaceX, citizen astronaut Chris Sembroski joins Blue Origin as engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full-width\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"557\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/220718-sembroski2-630x557.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-710770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/220718-sembroski2-630x557.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/220718-sembroski2-768x679.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/220718-sembroski2.jpg 1201w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption>Chris Sembroski went into orbit during the Inspiration4 mission in 2021. (SpaceX \/ Inspiration4 Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Seattle-area data engineer Chris Sembroski got his first taste of space last year during an orbital trip in SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon capsule, but now he\u2019s got a full-time job in the space industry \u2014 as an avionics engineer at Blue Origin.<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s Twitter update, Sembroski made no mention of the rivalry between SpaceX\u2019s billionaire founder, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos, who founded the Blue Origin space venture as well as Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he played up the allure of the space frontier, as reflected in newly released pictures from NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST. \u201cSpace beckons us. It taunts us,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImages of our universe from Hubble and JWST pull on our desires to explore and to seek out new adventures,\u201d Sembroski said. \u201cI am thrilled to be a part of our expansion out to the rest of the universe \u2014 AND to announce I have joined @blueorigin! Let\u2019s go!\u201d<\/p>\n<p> The picture accompanying the tweet shows Blue Origin\u2019s orbital-class New Glenn rocket lifting off, and Sembroski\u2019s LinkedIn page lists his job title as avionics engineer, but he provided no further details about what he\u2019ll be doing at Blue Origin. We\u2019ve reached out to Sembroski via email and will update this report with any additional information about the new job.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Inspiration4 Fireside Chat - 2022 Space Camp Hall of Fame\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pN-L_ig3d44?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Sembroski, who used to work on Minuteman missiles for the U.S. Air Force, was a fault detection and diagnostics lead engineer for Lockheed Martin in Everett, Wash., when he was chosen as one of four crew members for last September\u2019s philanthropic Inspiration4 space mission. He benefited from a winning lottery ticket that was bought by a friend who decided against trying to make the orbital trip.<\/p>\n<p>One of Sembroski\u2019s tasks during the three-day, free-flying mission was to take pictures of the crew in the capsule and of the planet below. He provided some musical moments on the ukulele in orbit \u2014 and in a video clip that went viral, Sembroski was caught watching \u201cSpaceballs\u201d on his tablet during the crew\u2019s return to Earth. \u201cOne of my favorite movies,\u201d Musk tweeted in response.<\/p>\n<p>In April, Sembroski left his job at Lockheed Martin and became a senior analytics engineer at DB Engineering in Redmond, Wash. Back then, Sembroski said he\u2019d try to continue following up on his passion for outer space. \u201cWhat\u2019s cool about all this is that when you take a step back, you realize that every company is a space company,\u201d he told GeekWire at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Now he\u2019s changed the course of his career once more, to focus in on his dream destination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Sembroski went into orbit during the Inspiration4 mission in 2021. (SpaceX \/ Inspiration4 Photo) Seattle-area data engineer Chris Sembroski got his first taste of space last year during an orbital trip in SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon capsule, but now he\u2019s got a full-time job in the space industry \u2014 as an avionics engineer at Blue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[509,4628,1798,4396],"class_list":["post-17366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-blue-origin","tag-christopher-sembroski","tag-inspiration4","tag-tech-moves"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}