Blue Origin officially opens its new HQ and R&D center
< a class="crunchbase-link"href="https://crunchbase.com/person/jeff-bezos"target="_ blank "data-type="person"data-entity =”jeff-bezos”> Jeff Bezos- founded space innovation business Blue Origin officially cut the ribbon to open its new HQ and R&D center, located in Kent, Wash.– close by to Amazon’s own headquarters. The new facility covers 230,000 square feet and rests on a plot of land over 30 acres in size, and will eventually be the main office for around 1,500 Blue Origin employees.
Horn, West Texas; and Huntsville, Ala. It likewise plans to open a devoted engine production facility 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 path to human certification, and it’s seeking to next year to begin running New Glenn, its orbital launch car.
The brand-new HQ is called the O’Neill Building, called after Princeton University physicist Gerard O’Neill. O’Neill is known for his work with NASA in the 1970s, developing possible future innovation for sustained human existence in space– consisting of the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are large habitats developed to spin to reproduce Earth’s gravity for long-term residents and for on-board agriculture. Bezos last year talked about making O’Neill’s vision of the future a truth, detailing
how the habitats may be able to house as numerous as a million people on each station, to help 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