Cameroonian scientist Reine Dominique Ntone leaves NASA for Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin

Cameroonian scientist Reine Ntone has decided to leave her position at the U.S. space agency NASA to pursue other challenges, just over two years after joining.

Recently started a new aerospace adventure," Reine-Dominique Ntone Sike remarked on social media. "I left NASA to work on Blue Origin's new generation of rocket," she wrote.

Blue Origin is a US business formed in 2000 by Amazon.com founder and significant stakeholder Jeff Bezos with the purpose of developing new technologies to reduce the cost of access to space. The company's headquarters are in Kent, Washington, a suburb of Seattle.