Claims

Factual · Their own work or organisation

“This is a 650,000-square-foot manufacturing facility.”

Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin founder, narrating video · 20 September 2018 · Full transcript: Jeff Bezos shares Amazon management wisdom (GeekWire)

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket factory in Florida is a 650,000-square-foot manufacturing facility.

Mostly false False in substance, right in a detail.

Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.

What would count as true or false

TRUE: Blue Origin records, permits or credible reporting show that its New Glenn manufacturing facility at Exploration Park, Florida, measured about 650,000 sq ft as of 2018-09-20, within about 5%. MOSTLY TRUE: within about 10%. MOSTLY FALSE: the 650,000 figure refers to a different scope, such as the whole campus or planned rather than built space, or the actual figure differs by 10 to 25%. FALSE: the facility's size differed by more than 25%.

Evidence

1. Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has big plans to expand New Glenn rocket factory in Florida GeekWire · 23 March 2019

   “Blue Origin has erected a 750,000-square-foot factory on the 126-acre North Campus site for building orbital-class New Glenn rockets.”

2. Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin makes a deal to build rocket servicing center in Florida GeekWire · 4 October 2018

   “$205 million, 750,000-square-foot New Glenn rocket manufacturing factory that Blue Origin already has built in Florida.”

3. Blue Origin's Giant Rocket Facility is Taking Shape in Florida Space.com · 8 December 2016

   “Just a very short note to update you on the 750,000 square-foot New Glenn rocket factory”

Reasoning

Three independent reports give the New Glenn factory in Florida as 750,000 square feet, not 650,000. These are Space.com in December 2016 (E3), and GeekWire in October 2018 (E2) and March 2019 (E1). E2, published about two weeks after the claim date, says the 750,000-square-foot factory was already built. The 650,000 figure is about 13% below the reported size, which falls in the 10–25% band the criteria set for mostly false.

Cite this claim

Jeff Bezos, “Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket factory in Florida is a 650,000-square-foot manufacturing facility.” (said 20 September 2018). Verdict: mostly false. Reliability API, claim c_27d1d856d23a, method 0.1.0+c876030c. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_27d1d856d23a