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 space technology business Blue Origin officially cut the ribbon to open its new HQ and R&D facility, situated in Kent, Wash.– close by to Amazon’s own headquarters. The brand-new center covers 230,000 square feet and sits on a plot of land over 30 acres in size, and will eventually be the main office for around 1,500 Blue Origin workers.
Horn, West Texas; and Huntsville, Ala. It likewise prepares to open a devoted engine manufacturing facility in Alabama this March. 2020 should also see Blue Origin fly its first human guests aboard New Shepard, its sub-orbital rocket, which is currently well along the course to human certification, and it’s looking to next year to start operating New Glenn, its orbital launch automobile.
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 potential future technology for continual human existence in area– consisting of the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are large habitats created to spin to reproduce Earth’s gravity for long-term homeowners and for on-board agriculture. Bezos in 2015 discussed making O’Neill’s vision of the future a reality, detailing
how the environments might be able to house as lots of as a million individuals on each station, to help develop a brand-new extension of humankind’s home on Earth. In total, Blue Origin uses more than 2,500 individuals, including at its centers in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Van