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 innovation for continual human presence in space– including the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are big environments designed to spin to duplicate Earth’s gravity for long-term citizens and for on-board farming. It likewise prepares to open a devoted engine manufacturing facility in Alabama this March. 2020 need to also see Blue Origin fly its 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 lorry.