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 technology company Blue Origin officially cut the ribbon to open its new HQ and R&D facility, 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 employees.
Horn, West Texas; and Huntsville, Ala. It also plans to open a devoted engine production 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 accreditation, and it’s aiming to next year to start running New Glenn, its orbital launch automobile.
The brand-new HQ is called the O’Neill Building, named after Princeton University physicist Gerard O’Neill. O’Neill is understood for his deal with NASA in the 1970s, conceiving possible future innovation for continual human existence in space– consisting of the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are large habitats created to spin to replicate Earth’s gravity for long-lasting citizens and for on-board agriculture. Bezos last year talked about making O’Neill’s vision of the future a reality, detailing
how the environments may be able to house as lots of as a million individuals on each station, to help develop a new extension of mankind’s house on Earth. In overall, Blue Origin utilizes more than 2,500 people, including at its centers in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Van