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 facility in Alabama this March. 2020 must likewise see Blue Origin fly its very first human guests aboard New Shepard, its sub-orbital rocket, which is currently well along the course to human certification, and it’s seeking to next year to begin operating New Glenn, its orbital launch vehicle.
The brand-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, conceiving potential future technology for continual human existence in area– including the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are large habitats designed to spin to reproduce Earth’s gravity for long-term residents and for on-board farming. Bezos last year talked about making O’Neill’s vision of the future a reality, detailing
how the habitats might be able to house as lots of as a million people on each station, to help develop a brand-new extension of mankind’s house in the world. In overall, Blue Origin uses more than 2,500 individuals, consisting of at its facilities in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Van
< a class="crunchbase-link"href="https://crunchbase.com/person/jeff-bezos"target="_ blank "data-type="person"data-entity =”jeff-bezos”> Jeff Bezos- founded area technology company Blue Origin formally 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 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.