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 area innovation company Blue Origin formally 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 brand-new facility covers 230,000 square feet and rests on a plot of land over 30 acres in size, and will become the base of operations for around 1,500 Blue Origin staff members.
The new HQ is called the O’Neill Building, named after Princeton University physicist Gerard O’Neill. O’Neill is known for his deal with NASA in the 1970s, developing possible future innovation for continual human presence in space– including the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are big environments created to spin to replicate Earth’s gravity for long-lasting citizens and for on-board agriculture. Bezos last year went over making O’Neill’s vision of the future a reality, detailing
how the environments might be able to house as numerous as a million people on each station, to help develop a new extension of mankind’s home in the world. In overall, Blue Origin employs more than 2,500 individuals, including at its facilities in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Van
Horn, West Texas; and Huntsville, Ala. It likewise prepares to open a dedicated engine manufacturing center in Alabama this March. 2020 must likewise see Blue Origin fly its first human passengers aboard New Shepard, its sub-orbital rocket, which is presently well along the path to human certification, and it’s aiming to next year to start operating New Glenn, its orbital launch vehicle.