{"id":27351,"date":"2016-06-29T10:46:32","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T17:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/jeff-bezos-provides-a-sneak-peek-at-blue-origins-orbital-rocket-factory-in-florida"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:54:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:54:36","slug":"jeff-bezos-provides-a-sneak-peek-at-blue-origins-orbital-rocket-factory-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/jeff-bezos-provides-a-sneak-peek-at-blue-origins-orbital-rocket-factory-in-florida","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos provides a sneak peek at Blue Origin\u2019s orbital rocket factory in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/jeff-bezos-provides-a-sneak-peek-at-blue-origins-orbital-rocket-factory-in-florida.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos today put a spotlight on the construction of a giant rocket production facility in Florida for his Blue Origin space venture \u2013 but he also gave a shout-out to the engine production team back in Kent, Wash.<\/p>\n<p>In an email to Blue Origin\u2019s fans, Bezos noted that ground has been broken for an orbital vehicle manufacturing site at Exploration Park, just south of NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Ground-clearing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/story\/tech\/science\/space\/2016\/06\/03\/blue-origin-clearing-land-massive-rocket-factory\/85198336\/\">actually began last month<\/a>.) <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 750,000-square-foot rocket factory is custom-built from the ground up to accommodate manufacturing, processing, integration and testing,\u201d Bezos wrote. In comparison, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2016\/jeff-bezos-lifts-curtain-blue-origin-rocket-factory-vision-space\/\">production facility in Kent where Blue Origin is building rocket engines<\/a> and its New Shepard suborbital spaceships takes in about 300,000 square feet.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2016\/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-orbital-rocket-factory-florida\/\">http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2016\/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-orbital-...y-florida\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos today put a spotlight on the construction of a giant rocket production facility in Florida for his Blue Origin space venture \u2013 but he also gave a shout-out to the engine production team back in Kent, Wash. In an email to Blue Origin\u2019s fans, Bezos noted that ground has been broken [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27351"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67063,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27351\/revisions\/67063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}