Kent Mayor Dana Ralph praised the city’s competitiveness in the aerospace industry during her State of the City Business Edition speech to the Kent Chamber of Commerce.
Ralph described how it all started in the 1960s at the Boeing Space Center with development of the Lunar Roving Vehicle used on the Apollo missions in the 1970s on the moon and spread to today’s rocket manufacturing companies Blue Origin and Stoke Space.
“Aerospace manufacturing is the backbone of our Valley,” Ralph said during her talk at the Green River College Kent Campus at Kent Station. “Nearly 32,000 aerospace jobs are located here, more than one-third of Washington’s entire aerospace employment located in the Kent Valley across 200 workplaces.”…