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 manufacturing facility in Alabama this March. 2020 should also see Blue Origin fly its very first human passengers aboard New Shepard, its sub-orbital rocket, which is presently well along the course to human accreditation, and it’s wanting to next year to begin running New Glenn, its orbital launch car.
< 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 business Blue Origin officially cut the ribbon to open its new HQ and R&D center, located in Kent, Wash.– close by to Amazon’s own head office. 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 staff members.
The brand-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 prospective future technology for sustained human existence in space– including the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are large habitats designed to spin to reproduce Earth’s gravity for long-lasting residents and for on-board farming. Bezos in 2015 discussed 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 assist establish a new extension of humanity’s home in the world. In overall, Blue Origin utilizes more than 2,500 individuals, including at its facilities in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Van