BLUE ORIGIN EXPANDS HERE

June 13, 2019 — Blue Origin expands on the Space Coast. The Blue Origin campus will nearly double in size at Exploration Park and the facility will function as both manufacturing center and launch control for New Glenn missions. Blue Origin, led by Jeff Bezos who launched Amazon in 1994, is investing more than a billion dollars to transform infrastructure to make way for its New Glenn rocket.

Current Blue Origins expansion plans call for launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on the Space Coast no earlier than 2021. Construction workers finished the existing factory at Park in late 2017, but that’s just the first phase. Blue has embarked on a series of initiatives here on the Space Coast of Florida.

Next door to Titusville, visible across the Indian River Lagoon, just 10 miles away at Launch Complex 36, up to 600 people have already been hired to build out the infrastructure required for New Glenn launch. It’s the launch pad formerly used for Atlas-Centaur rockets that Blue Origin now leases from the U.S. Air Force.

Blue Origin already employs locally approximately 250 people working toward these goals. Before build out is complete, it is expected that number will be in the upper hundreds.

Source: Florida Today

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