Florida near where they will launch New Glenn from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, after initiating design and construction in 2015. The west Texas suborbital launch site is at 31°25'22.6"N 104°45'25.6"W (31.422949, -104.757120), about 20 miles north of Van Horn, Texas. At Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, from 2016, Blue Origin have been converting Launch Complex 36 (LC-36) to launch New Glenn to orbit. Flights Funding By July 2014, Jeff Bezos had invested over into Blue Origin. and the vast majority of further funding into 2016 was to support technology development and operations at Blue Origin came from Jeff Bezos' private investment, but Bezos declined to publicly state the amount prior to April 2017 when an annual amount was published showing that Bezos was selling approximately in Amazon stock each year for investment in Blue Origin. Bezos received criticism for spending so much of his vast wealth to fund Blue Origin and his personal flight into space instead of addressing the needs of people on Earth. Bezos said his critics were "largely right" and: "We have lots of problems here and now on Earth and we need to work on those. And we always need to look to the future. We've always done that as a species, as a civilization. We have to do both." As of October 2018, Blue Origin received at least $181 million from the United States Air Force for launch vehicle development. Blue Origin also completed work for NASA on several small development contracts, receiving total funding of by 2013. Blue Origins was also eligible to benefit from further grants raising this to as part of the Launch Services Agreement competition, However, after the company failed to secure a National Security Space Launch procurement contract, on December 31, 2020 the U.S. Space Force officially terminated launch technology partnerships with Blue Origin. Collaborations With NASA Blue Origin has contracted to do work for NASA on several development efforts. The company was awarded in funding in 2009 by NASA via a Space Act Agreement under the first Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) program for development of concepts and technologies to support future human spaceflight operations. NASA co-funded risk-mitigation activities related to ground testing of (1) an innovative 'pusher' escape system, that lowers cost by being reusable and enhances safety by avoiding the jettison event of a traditional 'tractor' Launch Escape System, and (2) an innovative composite pressure vessel