Alabama workers are getting the first shot at a new Blue Origin program that pays them to learn how to build spaceflight hardware – with full-time salaries, benefits from day one, and no four-year degree required.
Blue Origin announced Thursday that its ATLAS Apprenticeship program is launching in Alabama with an inaugural class of 10 machinist apprentices. The company describes it as the first U.S. Department of Labor-registered apprenticeship program built exclusively for space manufacturing…