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- established space technology business Blue Origin officially cut the ribbon to open its brand-new HQ and R&D facility, situated 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.
Horn, West Texas; and Huntsville, Ala. It also plans to open a dedicated engine manufacturing facility in Alabama this March. 2020 ought to also see Blue Origin fly its first human travelers aboard New Shepard, its sub-orbital rocket, which is currently well along the path to human accreditation, and it’s looking to next year to start operating New Glenn, its orbital launch car.
The 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 innovation for sustained human presence in area– including the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are big environments developed to spin to replicate Earth’s gravity for long-term citizens and for on-board agriculture. Bezos last year discussed making O’Neill’s vision of the future a reality, detailing
how the environments might be able to house as numerous as a million individuals on each station, to assist establish a new extension of humanity’s home on Earth. In overall, Blue Origin utilizes more than 2,500 individuals, consisting of at its centers in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Van