Blue Origin has begun the process of moving into its massive rocket factory at Kennedy Space Center's Exploration Park, according to a NASA official's comments during a conference at Port Canaveral this week.

The private rocketry company bankrolled by Amazon founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos was granted a temporary certificate of occupancy for a portion of its massive facility on Space Commerce Way Monday morning and began moving in by Tuesday.

"If you haven’t been on Space Commerce Way to see their beautiful, ginormous – that’s the only way to describe it – facility where they’re going to be manufacturing a rocket ... incredible facility, and they are moving in there today," said Nancy Bray, director of spaceport integration and services at Kennedy Space Center, during a Tuesday transportation conference at Port Canaveral.

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Full occupancy of the 750,000-square-foot factory just south of the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex will be granted by Space Florida, which manages KSC's Exploration Park, at a later date.

"This is an important step in what continues to be a long journey for the full development of Exploration Park and all that it means to the area and state," said Dale Ketcham, chief of strategic alliances at Space Florida.

The blue-and-white facility will be responsible for manufacturing 270- and 313-foot variants of the company's planned New Glenn rockets, which will launch no sooner than 2020.

The company's heavy-lift BE-4 rocket engines, meanwhile, will be built at a 200,000-square-foot facility in Huntsville, Alabama. Seven BE-4s, which burn liquified natural gas and produce 550,000 pounds of thrust each, will vault New Glenns to space.

Blue Origin plans to launch from about 10 miles away at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 36, a 1960s-era pad that is also under construction to accommodate the rocket's specifications. The company leases the property from the Air Force.

But the factory's proximity to the pad and advances in automation mean teams won't necessarily need a launch control facility on Air Force property – officials expect to use one of the factory's upper-level spaces as a launch control center.

Blue Origin is making a capital investment of $205 million to $220 million and plans to create 330 jobs in Brevard County with an average wage of $89,000.

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