Blue Origin officially opens its new HQ and R&D center
The new HQ is called the O’Neill Building, called after Princeton University physicist Gerard O’Neill. O’Neill is understood for his work with NASA in the 1970s, developing prospective future technology for continual human presence in space– including the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are big environments created to spin to duplicate Earth’s gravity for long-lasting residents and for on-board farming. Bezos last year discussed making O’Neill’s vision of the future a reality, detailing
how the habitats may be able to house as many as a million people on each station, to assist develop a new extension of humankind’s house in the world. In total, Blue Origin employs more than 2,500 people, consisting of at its centers in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Van
Horn, West Texas; and Huntsville, Ala. It also plans to open a devoted engine manufacturing center in Alabama this March. 2020 should also see Blue Origin fly its first human travelers aboard New Shepard, its sub-orbital rocket, which is currently well along the course to human certification, and it’s aiming to next year to start running New Glenn, its orbital launch lorry.
< a class="crunchbase-link"href="https://crunchbase.com/person/jeff-bezos"target="_ blank "data-type="person"data-entity =”jeff-bezos”> Jeff Bezos- established area innovation company Blue Origin formally cut the ribbon to open its brand-new HQ and R&D facility, located in Kent, Wash.– close by to Amazon’s own head office. The brand-new center covers 230,000 square feet and sits on a plot of land over 30 acres in size, and will become the main office for around 1,500 Blue Origin staff members.