Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin opens $200M facility in Alabama

Blue Origin, the commercial rocket company founded by Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos, has opened its new rocket engine production company in Huntsville. The company made a $200 million investment in the Cummings Research Park facility, which will employ more than 300 people. Another 200 jobs are expected to be created over the next year. Blue Origin's new 350,000-square-foot Huntsville facility will produce heavy-lift BE-4 rocket engine, which will be used for Blue Origin's New…