Lead engineer for Blue Origin's lunar lander program jumps to SpaceX

Blue Origin’s lead engineer for its lunar lander project announced he has left to join SpaceX, which netted a coveted contract from NASA this spring to bring astronauts back to the moon. Nitin Arora, the mission architecture and integration lead for Blue Origin’s Human Landing System announced on LinkedIn Aug. 16 that he’d taken a position at the Elon Musk-led company. “It was one hell of a ride working on the lunar program,” Arora said. “Really honored that I got a chance to work…