Blue Origin breaks ground on Florida factory

spacenews.com ^ | June 28, 2016 | by Brian Berger —

[BenLurkin]

In his June 28 email — the latest in a series of emails he sends out to provide short updates on Blue Origins’ activities — Bezos described the 750,000 square foot rocket factory as “custom-built from the ground up to accommodate manufacturing, processing, integration and testing.

“Among other things, the facility hosts large scale friction stir welding and automated composite processing equipment,” he wrote. “All of the vehicle will be manufactured in this facility except for the engines. Initial BE-4 engine production will occur at our Kent facility while we conduct a site selection process later this year for a larger engine production facility to accommodate higher production rates.”

[ErikJohnsky]

Florida’s Indian population just got much bigger (unless Bezos decides to go patriotic and hire locally)

[Fungi]

Hell with Bezos. Go to Barnes and Noble, Books a Million, or just buy it locally—anything apart from giving this capitalist the tools to destroy capitalism.

[NonValueAdded]

Brevard County, Florida ping.

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