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Hiring Booms at SpaceX and Blue Origin Making It Hard for NASA to Attract Talent
- SpaceX salaries are higher, though workweek can be very long
- Private firms ‘know people want to go work for them’: student
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SpaceX and Blue Origin LLC are competing to launch satellites and take humans to the moon. They are also paying big salaries to hire so many young and tireless engineers that old-line aerospace employers like Boeing Co. and NASA are finding it harder to fill positions.
Most aerospace students really covet jobs at SpaceX and Blue Origin, recruiters say. The private firms are run by two of the three richest men in the world, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, who ultimately imagine people living and working in Earth’s orbit and on the surface of Mars.