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BLUE ORIGIN TO MAKE COMMERCIAL SPACE ANNOUNCEMENT...

• http://www.spaceflightinsider.com,

 Jeff Bezos, the founder of the commercial aerospace firm Blue Origin, will host an event at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, it is currently scheduled to take place on Tuesday, Sept. 15, and will begin at around 9:45 a.m. EDT. Not much more than that has been said about the event other than it will be about the emerging commercial launch industry. Speculation has it, however, that a new launch vehicle might be joining those who already fly from the Cape.

There have been unconfirmed reports that Blue Origin might be eyeing the Cape's established infrastructure from which to both build and launch the company's launch vehicles from, a possibility noted by Florida Today's James Dean.

The Orlando Business Journal provided a bit more information, stating a $200 million investment that could see hundreds of new jobs created in the region was in the offing. This could serve to benefit the Space Coast as the area was severely impacted in 2010 when President Barack Obama cancelled NASA's crewed program of record, Constellation.


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