The company that looks to send tourists up on a space balloon from Brevard County from the old Kenned Space Center shuttle landing facility has chosen to also build a campus and manufacturing complex on the Space Coast.
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he experienced the gloom as the space shuttle program retired and florida s historic space coast. an economy built on the space race lost about 8,000 space jobs and a sense of purpose. but today excitement is surging again. amazon s jeff bezos planted his company s flag this month promising like blue origin will build the capsule and launch passengers to space within a few years, while delivering hundreds of well-paying jobs, by 2020, spacex, boeing and united launch alliance should be launching people and cargo from the cape and further down the road, nasa s orion capsule could send people to mars. the space coast economic development commission said it s lured 7,000 jobs since the loss of the space shuttle. they shop, they buy cars, they buy houses, you see it happens as we speak. literally this phenomena is