Blue Origin officially opens its new HQ and R&D center
Horn, West Texas; and Huntsville, Ala. It also prepares to open a devoted engine production center in Alabama this March. 2020 need to also see Blue Origin fly its very first human passengers aboard New Shepard, its sub-orbital rocket, which is presently well along the course to human accreditation, and it’s aiming to next year to begin running New Glenn, its orbital launch vehicle.
< 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 business Blue Origin officially cut the ribbon to open its brand-new HQ and R&D center, located in Kent, Wash.– close by to Amazon’s own headquarters. The new facility 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 employees.
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 presence in space– consisting of the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are large environments created to spin to reproduce Earth’s gravity for long-lasting homeowners and for on-board farming. Bezos in 2015 talked about making O’Neill’s vision of the future a truth, detailing
how the habitats might be able to house as numerous as a million individuals on each station, to assist develop a new extension of mankind’s house in the world. In overall, Blue Origin employs more than 2,500 people, consisting of at its facilities in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Van