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="person"data-entity =”jeff-bezos”> Jeff Bezos- established space innovation company Blue Origin officially cut the ribbon to open its new HQ and R&D facility, located in Kent, Wash.– nearby 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 brand-new HQ is called the O’Neill Building, named after Princeton University physicist Gerard O’Neill. O’Neill is known for his deal with NASA in the 1970s, developing possible future technology for sustained human existence in space– consisting of the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are big habitats created to spin to replicate Earth’s gravity for long-term homeowners and for on-board agriculture. Bezos in 2015 talked about making O’Neill’s vision of the future a truth, detailing
how the environments might be able to house as numerous as a million people on each station, to help develop a new extension of mankind’s house in the world. In overall, Blue Origin employs more than 2,500 individuals, consisting of at its facilities in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Van
Horn, West Texas; and Huntsville, Ala. It likewise prepares to open a dedicated engine manufacturing center in Alabama this March. 2020 must likewise see Blue Origin fly its first human guests aboard New Shepard, its sub-orbital rocket, which is presently well along the path to human certification, and it’s aiming to next year to start running New Glenn, its orbital launch lorry.