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Bezos' Blue Origin to Set Up Rocket HQ in Washington State
space.com ^ | 11/09/05 | Leonard David

Posted on 11/09/2005 7:57:48 PM PST by KevinDavis

The Seattle-based Blue Origin rocket company, bankrolled by Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, plans to set up corporate headquarters and primary operations in the city of Kent, Washington next year.

Secretive in their rocket work, Blue Origin is developing a passenger-carrying vertical takeoff and landing rocket.

According to a recent statement from the City of Kent’s mayor, Jim White, Blue Origin will house the rocket firm’s research, design, and manufacturing, assembly, and test operations in the city of 84,000 people, creating a capacity for up to 100 jobs.

Blue Origin executives anticipate that the company’s launch facility in West Texas, combined with its new Kent headquarters, will support the rocket group’s long-term mission, “to enable an enduring human presence in space.”

(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: blueorgin; space
Word of adivce to Jeff: Run, don't walk run from Washington before they get an idea in how to tax your company to death....
1 posted on 11/09/2005 7:57:50 PM PST by KevinDavis
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2 posted on 11/09/2005 7:58:35 PM PST by KevinDavis (http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
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To: KevinDavis

What's the one in Mojave?


3 posted on 11/09/2005 8:04:53 PM PST by tallhappy (Juntos Podemos!)
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To: KevinDavis

Hey....that's my Hometown....and it's a H#llhole....it's in King County where the commies rule. But, Jeff Bezos KNOWS this.....


4 posted on 11/09/2005 9:29:57 PM PST by goodnesswins (DEMS....40 yrs and $$$dollars for the War on Poverty, but NOT a $$ or minute for the WAR on Terror!)
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