What just happened between Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and Alabama? (al.com)

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Updated on June 27, 2017 at 2:04 PM Posted on June 27, 2017 at 7:21 AM
By Lee Roop
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Alabama leaders from Gov. Kay Ivey and U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby down to the Huntsville City Council gathered Monday to cheer the news that Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin will build a rocket engine plant in Huntsville.

Hundreds of jobs, hundreds of millions of dollars in investment. That's what the crowd heard. But what's happening between Amazon founder Bezos and Alabama right now is more complicated than it appeared to the casual attendee.

"Blue Origin will build a 400,000-square-foot facility on 40 acres in Cummings Research Park," Gov. Ivey said. "Blue Origin will be investing $200 million to produce the BE-4 rocket engine which will supply the New Glenn orbital launch vehicle and hopefully (be) selected (for) the United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket."

Blue Origin President Rob Meyerson followed Ivey to the podium to announce "the selection of Huntsville, Ala., as the location of Blue Origin's BE-4 rocket engine production factory."

But Meyerson also added a caveat.
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[AJT]

1. You forgot to add Russia to the title.....and Senator Shelby.

[Duppers]

2. Really.

And holyf'nshit.