BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — During a special media tour of its Merritt Island factory, officials shared details about the New Glenn rocket, which will send a spacecraft to the moon and, eventually, humans to Earth’s lunar sister as part of an Artemis mission.

Blue Origin’s Senior Vice President of Lunar Permanence John Couluris led the Friday-morning tour as he described how the assembly line worked as engineers and technicians were putting together a 322-foot-tall (98-meter) New Glenn rocket.

Couluris shared how the 750,000-square-foot facility has various sections that are tasked with different responsibilities, such as working on different parts of the rocket, like the parts of the upper stage or how one section is where the “plumbing” (electrical wires and tubes) is fitted into the rocket

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