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 production center in Alabama this March. 2020 must likewise see Blue Origin fly its very first human passengers aboard New Shepard, its sub-orbital rocket, which is presently well along the path to human certification, and it’s wanting to next year to begin running 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, located in Kent, Wash.– close by to Amazon’s own headquarters. The new center covers 230,000 square feet and rests on a plot of land over 30 acres in size, and will become the main office for around 1,500 Blue Origin workers.
The 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, developing potential future technology for sustained human existence in area– consisting of the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are big habitats designed to spin to replicate Earth’s gravity for long-lasting homeowners and for on-board agriculture. Bezos in 2015 went over making O’Neill’s vision of the future a reality, 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 humanity’s home in the world. In total, Blue Origin employs more than 2,500 individuals, consisting of at its centers in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Van