Blue Origin officially opens its new HQ and R&D center
Horn, West Texas; and Huntsville, Ala. It also plans to open a dedicated engine manufacturing center in Alabama this March. 2020 must likewise see Blue Origin fly its first human guests aboard New Shepard, its sub-orbital rocket, which is presently well along the course to human certification, and it’s seeking to next year to begin operating New Glenn, its orbital launch vehicle.
< a class="crunchbase-link"href="https://crunchbase.com/person/jeff-bezos"target="_ blank "data-type="person"data-entity =”jeff-bezos”> Jeff Bezos- founded space technology company Blue Origin formally cut the ribbon to open its new HQ and R&D facility, situated in Kent, Wash.– close by to Amazon’s own headquarters. The new facility covers 230,000 square feet and sits on a plot of land over 30 acres in size, and will ultimately be the base of operations for around 1,500 Blue Origin employees.
The brand-new HQ is called the O’Neill Building, named after Princeton University physicist Gerard O’Neill. O’Neill is known for his work with NASA in the 1970s, conceiving potential future technology for continual human existence in area– including the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are big environments created to spin to replicate Earth’s gravity for long-lasting homeowners and for on-board agriculture. Bezos last year discussed making O’Neill’s vision of the future a reality, detailing
how the habitats might be able to house as lots of as a million individuals on each station, to assist establish a brand-new extension of mankind’s house in the world. In total, Blue Origin uses more than 2,500 individuals, consisting of at its facilities in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Van