{"id":17821,"date":"2020-01-23T18:37:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T10:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/blue-origin-ramps-up-team-for-blue-moon-lander-as-it-waits-for-word-from-nasa\/"},"modified":"2020-01-23T18:37:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T10:37:47","slug":"blue-origin-ramps-up-team-for-blue-moon-lander-as-it-waits-for-word-from-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/blue-origin-ramps-up-team-for-blue-moon-lander-as-it-waits-for-word-from-nasa\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin ramps up team for Blue Moon lander as it waits for word from NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_497706\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-497706\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-497706\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/190509-bluem3-630x420.jpg\" alt=\"Bezos and Blue Moon lander\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/190509-bluem3-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/190509-bluem3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/190509-bluem3-1260x840.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-497706\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Bezos shows off a mockup of the Blue Moon lunar lander at its unveiling in Washington, D.C., in May 2019. (GeekWire Photo \/ Alan Boyle)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin space venture has posted more than 50 job openings for its Blue Moon lunar lander program, which is currently under consideration for NASA funding.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The online listings put out the word about positions at Blue Origin\u2019s home base in Kent, Wash., ranging from chief engineer to administrative assistant. Most of the positions focus on software engineering and systems development. For what it\u2019s worth, a mockup of the Blue Moon lander is the centerpiece of the O\u2019Neill Building, the company\u2019s new headquarters in Kent.<\/li>\n<li>Bezos unveiled that mockup last May in Washington, D.C., and last October he announced that Blue Origin was teaming up with Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Draper to propose an integrated landing system for NASA\u2019s Artemis moon program. NASA\u2019s mission architecture calls for the use of commercial landers to send astronauts to the moon\u2019s south polar region by as early as 2024 via a moon-orbiting Gateway outpost.<\/li>\n<li>NASA is due to award the first round of 10-month development contracts for a human landing system as early as this month, with an eye toward ordering landers for the 2024 mission and perhaps a 2025 follow-up demonstration. That plan may have to be reworked, however, because Congress approved only $600 million of the $1 billion that NASA sought for the lander program. Boeing and a team including Dynetics and Sierra Nevada Corp. have also proposed lander concepts, and SpaceX is thought to have done so as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Bezos shows off a mockup of the Blue Moon lunar lander at its unveiling in Washington, D.C., in May 2019. (GeekWire Photo \/ Alan Boyle) Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin space venture has posted more than 50 job openings for its Blue Moon lunar lander program, which is currently under consideration for NASA [&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":[304,509,625],"class_list":["post-17821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-artemis","tag-blue-origin","tag-moon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17821"}],"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=17821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}