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Will Blue Origin build moon lander in Brevard County?

Will Blue Origin build moon lander in Brevard County?
YEARS. DAN: JEFF BEZOS -- MR. BEZOS: WE ARE GOING TO HOLD A ROAD TO AND THEN AMAZING THINGS WILL HAPPEN. DAN: WHE BEZOS HAS CREATED A ROCKET FACTORY. AS YOU HE HIT IT COULD BE PART OF NASA’S FIVE-YEAR PLAN TO GET TO THE MOON. MR. BEZOS: LET ME SHOW YOU SOMETHING. DAN: A MOON LANDER IS THE MAIN THING NASA’S MOON PLAN LACKS SOME AND NOW BEZOS SAYS HE CAN PROVIDE IT CAN OPTIMIZE TO BE LAUNCHED O BREVARD-BUILT ROCKETS. WILL THE LATER BE BUILT HERE? >> IF THERE IS SOME WAY WE CAN ENTICE THEM TO MAKE A GOOD AS HIS CASE FOR WHY THAT SHOULD BE CONSTRUCTED HERE, WILL BE A BIG STEP FORWARD FOR THE CAKE. DAN: -- CAPE. DAN: DIVISION IS THIS. ASTERISK -- ASTRONAUTS COULD BOARD THE LATER FOR A RIGHT TO THE SURFACE. MR. BEZOS: THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE VEHICLE, AND I
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Will Blue Origin build moon lander in Brevard County?
A new moon-landing vehicle, unveiled Thursday by Jeff Bezos, could be built in Brevard County if the state space agency gets its way.The moon lander could carry NASA astronauts to the moon in five years.Some of that road-building starts on the Space Coast, not only where the launch pads await, but where Bezos has built a rocket factory to create some of the largest rockets ever made. Blue Origin is a private enterprise, but at an invitation-only event Thursday, Bezos hinted it could all be part of NASA's five-year plan to get to the moon. Vice President Mike Pence announced the plan in March, but indicated the government's planned super-rocket might be too expensive and too far behind schedule, compared with one that is privately build, or commercial rockets."If commercial rockets are the only way to get Americans to the moon in the next five years, then commercial rockets it will be," Pence said.A moon lander is the main thing NASA lacks in its plan to return to the moon. Bezos said he can provide it, optimized to be launched on Brevard-built New Glenn rockets. The new vision could see New Glenn rockets carrying Blue Moon landers to a NASA-built gateway orbiting the moon. Astronauts could board Bezos' lander for a ride to the moon's surface in the next five years

A new moon-landing vehicle, unveiled Thursday by Jeff Bezos, could be built in Brevard County if the state space agency gets its way.

The moon lander could carry NASA astronauts to the moon in five years.

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Some of that road-building starts on the Space Coast, not only where the launch pads await, but where Bezos has built a rocket factory to create some of the largest rockets ever made.

Blue Origin is a private enterprise, but at an invitation-only event Thursday, Bezos hinted it could all be part of NASA's five-year plan to get to the moon.

Vice President Mike Pence announced the plan in March, but indicated the government's planned super-rocket might be too expensive and too far behind schedule, compared with one that is privately build, or commercial rockets.

"If commercial rockets are the only way to get Americans to the moon in the next five years, then commercial rockets it will be," Pence said.

A moon lander is the main thing NASA lacks in its plan to return to the moon. Bezos said he can provide it, optimized to be launched on Brevard-built New Glenn rockets.

The new vision could see New Glenn rockets carrying Blue Moon landers to a NASA-built gateway orbiting the moon.

Astronauts could board Bezos' lander for a ride to the moon's surface in the next five years