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 innovation business Blue Origin officially cut the ribbon to open its brand-new HQ and R&D facility, located in Kent, Wash.– nearby to Amazon’s own head office. The brand-new center covers 230,000 square feet and rests on a plot of land over 30 acres in size, and will eventually be the main office for around 1,500 Blue Origin staff members.
Horn, West Texas; and Huntsville, Ala. It also plans to open a devoted engine production facility 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 path to human accreditation, and it’s looking to next year to begin running New Glenn, its orbital launch car.
The brand-new HQ is called the O’Neill Building, named after Princeton University physicist Gerard O’Neill. O’Neill is known for his work with NASA in the 1970s, developing potential future innovation for sustained human existence in space– including the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are big environments designed to spin to replicate Earth’s gravity for long-lasting citizens and for on-board agriculture. Bezos in 2015 went over making O’Neill’s vision of the future a reality, detailing
how the environments might be able to house as lots of as a million individuals on each station, to help establish a new extension of mankind’s home in the world. In total, Blue Origin employs more than 2,500 people, consisting of at its centers in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Van