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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth discussed U.S. dominance during a speech at Blue Origin's Merritt Island rocket factory.
Blue Origin, which Jeff Bezos owns, holds billions in defense contracts. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made it a stop on his tour.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth went on a test flight in Florida on Monday, flown by NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman.
The Merritt Island facility, located at Exploration Park next to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, is designed to produce and integrate Blue Origin’s heavy-lift New Glenn rocket. The vehicle has flown twice and is seeking certification for national security space launch missions after four successful launches.
Image-obsessed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cosplayed as a NASA pilot in his latest photo op as he visited the Kennedy Space Center on Monday. Hegseth, 45, also got chummy with Jeff Bezos, 62, while touring the billionaire’s Blue Origin rocket factory.
The rocket is is set to launch four astronauts on a trip around the moon no earlier than Sunday, but first, NASA must fuel its rocket and run through the full launch-day process.
WASHINGTON (TNND) — Secretary of War Pete Hegseth visited Cape Canaveral, Florida, as part of his “ Arsenal of Freedom ” tour. While there, he visited NASA facilities and participated in an enlistment ceremony. He also stopped by the Blue Origin facilities and spoke about space defense with owner and former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
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War Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon is reviewing the SBA 8(a) program to curb fraud in defense contracting.
E ven before Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had declared Alex Pretti a domestic terrorist, Pete Hegseth was online trashing his home state. Hegseth, who grew up north of Minneapolis, took to social media in the hours after masked immigration agents shot the ICU nurse with a stark calculation: “ICE > MN.”