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- founded space innovation company 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 brand-new facility covers 230,000 square feet and rests on a plot of land over 30 acres in size, and will eventually be the base of operations 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 understood for his work with NASA in the 1970s, developing prospective future innovation for sustained human presence in area– consisting of the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are large environments developed to spin to replicate Earth’s gravity for long-lasting homeowners and for on-board farming. Bezos in 2015 went over making O’Neill’s vision of the future a reality, detailing
how the habitats might be able to house as many as a million people on each station, to help develop a brand-new extension of mankind’s home in the world. In overall, Blue Origin employs more than 2,500 individuals, including at its centers in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Van
Horn, West Texas; and Huntsville, Ala. It also plans to open a devoted engine production facility in Alabama this March. 2020 ought to likewise see Blue Origin fly its very first human guests aboard New Shepard, its sub-orbital rocket, which is presently well along the path to human accreditation, and it’s wanting to next year to begin running New Glenn, its orbital launch lorry.