Blue Origin officially opens its new HQ and R&D center
O’Neill is understood 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 large habitats created to spin to reproduce Earth’s gravity for long-lasting locals and for on-board agriculture. It also prepares to open a devoted engine manufacturing center in Alabama this March. 2020 ought to also 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 looking to next year to begin running New Glenn, its orbital launch vehicle.