{"id":97219,"date":"2019-10-08T16:43:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T23:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/blue-origin-is-outpacing-spacex-in-hiring-as-nasa-contracts-roll-in-but-not-for-long"},"modified":"2019-10-08T16:43:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T23:43:03","slug":"blue-origin-is-outpacing-spacex-in-hiring-as-nasa-contracts-roll-in-but-not-for-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/blue-origin-is-outpacing-spacex-in-hiring-as-nasa-contracts-roll-in-but-not-for-long","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin is outpacing SpaceX in hiring as NASA contracts roll in, but not for long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blue-origin-is-outpacing-spacex-in-hiring-as-nasa-contracts-roll-in-but-not-for-long.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Elon Musk announced the launch of SpaceX (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinknum.com\/company\/private: spacex?utm_source=thinknum_media\">$SPACEX<\/a>) in 2002, comparisons to Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinknum.com\/company\/private: blueorigin?utm_source=thinknum_media\">$BLUEORIGIN<\/a>) surfaced seemingly within seconds, and a private space war was born. As both companies engage in their own space race, and compete for private and government launch contracts, they\u2019ve both been on hiring sprees virtually since the day they were born.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Origin\u2019s head start remains intact, and is manifested <a href=\"https:\/\/media.thinknum.com\/articles\/billionaire-star-wars-bezos-vs-musk\/\">in its hiring patterns<\/a> that have shown the company adding more people at any one time than SpaceX. But that lead, at least according to trends we\u2019re now seeing with enough data, may end in the next year or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Elon Musk announced the launch of SpaceX ($SPACEX) in 2002, comparisons to Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin ($BLUEORIGIN) surfaced seemingly within seconds, and a private space war was born. As both companies engage in their own space race, and compete for private and government launch contracts, they\u2019ve both been on hiring sprees virtually since the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1490,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-government","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97219","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=97219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}