Merit Island – The Blue Ceff Bizos origin sank 3 billion dollars to create its manufacturing factory and launch it on the space coast in the past decade. On Friday, she invited visitors to a rare media tour in the factory, where she is building the new heavy Rockate Glen while promoting: the facility where the company will build its blue moon land to return astronauts to the moon.

“We have to win this space race. This is why we have invested very much,” said US Mike Mike Haridolos, Chairman of the Pennted Survey of Brevard Province. “You can only be confident after seeing what is happening here in blue.”

Blue Origin and Elon Musk’s Spacex Commercial Commercial Companies to grant NASA the human landing systems operating to Artemis. The SpaceX category is contracted to be a land for each of the Artemis III and IV, while the Blue Origen’s Blue Moon Mark 2 Lander is exploited to fly on Artemis V.

The lunar factory that was just completed, which aims to employ at least 1500 other people already 4000 in the job in Florida, where the brand 2 will form. As Haridopoulos pointed out, the tour made what appeared sometimes as a pie in the sky in a real, impressive thing.

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“This is the place where Artemis Landers will be built,” said John Colorris, Vice -Header of the Lunar Liability Department. “The moon says specifically, so no one has any doubt about what we do here in Florida, and that we are building the moon’s lands here.”

Like all buildings on the sprawling campus on the other side of the Kennedy Space Center, are drawn in bright blue. Other square feet add to an area of ​​more than 3 million square feet in general on the site.

While the new factory aims to build a painted version of Lander, the Blue Orige has already a second factory to the top and is running near the Port Canaveral called Lunar Plant 2, making the MARK 1 unjust.

He has plans to send it to the moon this year. Colleris said that Mark 1 is heading to Houston first for review in the thermal vacuum room at the Johnson Space Center of NASA.

He said: “We will verify this, make sure it is good, go out here, do some tests, integrate in New Glen, then launch it by the end of the year, and hit the wood.” “But again, this assumes that everything is going well. We want to make sure we have a successful task.”

New Glenn is the company’s heavy missile for the first time in January from the Cape Canaveral Space Force 36 launch complex. The second flight of missiles It can come before the end of October with the Mark 1 flight in queue as the third task.

The 322 -foot missile was built itself in the largest building at the Merrit Island facility, which is a factory floor with an area of ​​750,000 square feet with a length of 2 1/2 football fields.

“This is the only place where the missiles and the rides are built, near the launch platform,” said Coloris. “So we do not charge all parts of the country. We do not take delays in transportation. But also people who design and build vehicles will work to operate vehicles. So I have transferred this knowledge -” I know what this switch does or what this computer does ” – and if I have a problem on the painting, the person who did it really can come out there.”

He also said that he is unable to keep engineers in Florida where devices are made.

“There is a lot to learn by touching devices already, going out on the floor, digging a hole, and seeing what people do on the ground.” He said.

The new Glenn assembly line is spread through a flagrant white floor under hundreds of bright ceiling lights. It is filled with blue and gold -colored steel, lining up like a child’s army of LEGO’s creations and carries dozens of missile parts in various completion situations.

The sounds of air exercises and mineral energy screams on the screaming of minerals at the distance as it saves the cross alarm and the huge panties move along the bars more than 100 feet above the ground.

“As you can see from the buildings and the infrastructure that we build here, the Space coast is in an ideal place to open the rest of the solar system,” said Coloris. “It begins with a low -Earth orbit. It continues in the moon, which is my program, then it continues in Mars, the asteroid belts and beyond.”

Haridopoulos, in him The first chapter in CongressHe praised the investment of the blue asset on the space coast, noting that the Moon Factory 1 took only 18 months to finish the construction.

He said: “It is an oak allowance, and I admire the speed that I rose.”

He also indicated that companies are employing local youth.

“A few weeks ago, I was at Melbourne High School, Ou Ghali High School, Palm Pay High School,” he said. “These children get these certificates, come to these jobs and achieve between 8,000 dollars to $ 100,000 of high school. These are not jobs. These are jobs.”

He said that the investments preach well for the future of the space coast.

He said: “When you may invest tens of billions of dollars when it ends, they do not go anywhere. Therefore, these jobs do not fly at night.” “These men realize the end result, and they will not invest this investment by billions of dollars unless they feel that there is a commercial opportunity.”

Colleris said that for the Blue Origen part, he is ready to support NASA for Artemis V, but he will be ready to accelerate things if Spacex faces delays.

He said: “If NASA wants to speed up to go faster, we will offer it faster.” “It is now measured on Artemis V. If they want to go early, we will participate much faster.”

It was originally published: September 27, 2025 at 11:29 am EST