Blue Origin officially opens its new HQ and R&D center
O’Neill is known for his work with NASA in the 1970s, developing potential future technology for sustained human existence in space– including the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are big habitats created to spin to reproduce Earth’s gravity for long-term locals and for on-board farming. It also prepares to open a devoted engine production center in Alabama this March. 2020 should likewise 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 certification, and it’s looking to next year to begin running New Glenn, its orbital launch automobile.