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="individual"data-entity =”jeff-bezos”> Jeff Bezos- founded area technology business Blue Origin officially cut the ribbon to open its brand-new HQ and R&D center, located in Kent, Wash.– nearby to Amazon’s own head office. The new center covers 230,000 square feet and sits on a plot of land over 30 acres in size, and will eventually be the main office for around 1,500 Blue Origin employees.
The new HQ is called the O’Neill Building, named after Princeton University physicist Gerard O’Neill. O’Neill is understood for his work with NASA in the 1970s, developing prospective future innovation for continual human existence in space– consisting of the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are large environments created to spin to duplicate Earth’s gravity for long-lasting residents and for on-board farming. Bezos last year went over making O’Neill’s vision of the future a reality, detailing
how the environments may be able to house as lots of as a million individuals on each station, to help establish a new extension of mankind’s house in the world. In overall, Blue Origin employs more than 2,500 individuals, consisting of at its facilities in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Van
Horn, West Texas; and Huntsville, Ala. It also plans to open a devoted engine production center in Alabama this March. 2020 ought to also see Blue Origin fly its very first human guests aboard New Shepard, its sub-orbital rocket, which is currently well along the path to human accreditation, and it’s wanting to next year to begin operating New Glenn, its orbital launch vehicle.