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- established space technology company Blue Origin formally cut the ribbon to open its new HQ and R&D center, located in Kent, Wash.– nearby to Amazon’s own headquarters. The brand-new facility covers 230,000 square feet and sits on a plot of land over 30 acres in size, and will become the base of operations for around 1,500 Blue Origin workers.
The 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, conceiving prospective future innovation for continual human existence in space– consisting of the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are big habitats designed to spin to replicate Earth’s gravity for long-lasting locals and for on-board farming. Bezos last year went over making O’Neill’s vision of the future a truth, detailing
how the habitats may be able to house as numerous as a million individuals on each station, to assist establish a new extension of mankind’s home in the world. In overall, Blue Origin uses more than 2,500 individuals, consisting of at its centers in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Van
Horn, West Texas; and Huntsville, Ala. It also prepares to open a dedicated engine manufacturing facility in Alabama this March. 2020 should also see Blue Origin fly its first human passengers aboard New Shepard, its sub-orbital rocket, which is currently well along the course to human accreditation, and it’s wanting to next year to begin operating New Glenn, its orbital launch automobile.