{"id":96091,"date":"2019-09-11T16:23:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T23:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/after-leading-mars-rover-missions-steve-squyres-joins-blue-origin-as-chief-scientist"},"modified":"2019-09-11T16:23:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T23:23:04","slug":"after-leading-mars-rover-missions-steve-squyres-joins-blue-origin-as-chief-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/after-leading-mars-rover-missions-steve-squyres-joins-blue-origin-as-chief-scientist","title":{"rendered":"After leading Mars rover missions, Steve Squyres joins Blue Origin as chief scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-DsiHTGovGI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Just months after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2019\/opportunity-mars-requiem\/\">closing out the 15-year-long Opportunity rover mission on Mars<\/a>, Cornell University astronomer <a href=\"https:\/\/astro.cornell.edu\/steven-w-squyres\">Steve Squyres<\/a> is taking advantage of a new opportunity: the post of chief scientist at Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blueorigin.com\/\">Blue Origin space venture<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today Blue Origin confirmed that Squyres, 63, will be joining the company, which is headquartered in Kent, Wash.<\/p>\n<p>Squyres has been involved in NASA space missions including Voyager\u2019s trip past the solar system\u2019s giant planets and Magellan\u2019s voyage to Venus. But his main claim to fame is his stint as principal investigator for the <a href=\"https:\/\/mars.nasa.gov\/mer\/\">Mars Exploration Rovers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just months after closing out the 15-year-long Opportunity rover mission on Mars, Cornell University astronomer Steve Squyres is taking advantage of a new opportunity: the post of chief scientist at Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin space venture. Today Blue Origin confirmed that Squyres, 63, will be joining the company, which is headquartered in Kent, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}