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 company Blue Origin officially cut the ribbon to open its new HQ and R&D facility, situated in Kent, Wash.– nearby to Amazon’s own headquarters. The new facility covers 230,000 square feet and rests on a plot of land over 30 acres in size, and will ultimately be the base of operations for around 1,500 Blue Origin staff members.
The brand-new HQ is called the O’Neill Building, called after Princeton University physicist Gerard O’Neill. O’Neill is known for his deal with NASA in the 1970s, developing prospective future technology for sustained human presence in area– including the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are large environments designed to spin to replicate Earth’s gravity for long-term locals and for on-board agriculture. Bezos last year talked about making O’Neill’s vision of the future a reality, detailing
how the environments may be able to house as numerous as a million people on each station, to assist establish a new extension of mankind’s house in the world. In overall, Blue Origin utilizes more than 2,500 people, including at its facilities in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Van
Horn, West Texas; and Huntsville, Ala. It likewise plans to open a devoted engine manufacturing facility in Alabama this March. 2020 must also see Blue Origin fly its first human guests aboard New Shepard, its sub-orbital rocket, which is presently well along the path to human accreditation, and it’s looking to next year to begin operating New Glenn, its orbital launch car.