But helping SpaceX or Blue Origin build towering rockets, orbiting labs or moon landers can also mean serving at the whims of mercurial billionaire executives.
By Aashna Shah, Bloomberg NewsA SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Starlink satellites launches from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Monday, March 4, 2024, as seen from Cocoa Beach, Fla.
NASA, which follows the federal government’s General Schedule pay scales, offers starting salaries along a range that starts at $54,557 for engineers with bachelor’s degrees, $66,731 for master’s degrees and $73,038 for doctorates at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. William Putaansuu, an aerospace engineering undergraduate at the Georgia Institute of Technology, said that Blue Origin and SpaceX “know people want to go work for them.”
Rahn, who interned at NASA with the Jacob’s Space Exploration Group, said that his interview there focused on his resume to determine his qualifications and the questions were more personality based.
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