Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin founder, and CEO of Amazon, said the $205 million facility will be completed by December 2017. The 750,000 Square foot rocket factory will accomodate manufacturing, processing, integration and testing. All of the vehicle will be manufactured here except for the engines. They are conducting a site selection process to construct a separate engine manufacturing facility. Blue Origin plans to launch manned orbital vehicles from Florida’s Space Coast within

This is the 45th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing: July 20, 1969. Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong landed their moon module on the Sea of Tranquility. Since it is our first Lunar Residence I wanted to share this architectural anniversary with our readers. It had a lot of visual ‘Bling’ on the exterior with the gold foil, and was rather heavy on the high tech look inside, but the guests were more interested in the location, than style or comfort. I can’t wait till the r

What blog regarding Central Florida architecture would be complete without a posting on the International Space Station. One of the most unique dwellings/research labs in the solar system. Many of the modules were prepared and assembled here at Kennedy Space Center, and carried into orbit, to be attached to the ISS, by our Space Shuttle program. Departing Astronaut and station commander Sunita (Suni) Williams gives a 25 minute tour of the various modules, life on the station

I had to share these old photos from NASA that were posted on the ArchAtlas site on Tumblr,  fast becoming one of my favorite places on the internet: http://archatlas.tumblr.com/post/60670053364/vintage-nasa #airplane #nasa #space #windtunnel