Blue Origin officially opens its new HQ and R&D center
The 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 continual human presence in space– including the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are large habitats designed to spin to replicate Earth’s gravity for long-lasting residents and for on-board agriculture. Bezos last year went over making O’Neill’s vision of the future a truth, detailing
how the habitats may be able to house as numerous as a million individuals on each station, to assist develop a new extension of humanity’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 prepares to open a devoted engine production facility in Alabama this March. 2020 need to likewise see Blue Origin fly its very first human guests aboard New Shepard, its sub-orbital rocket, which is currently well along the path to human accreditation, and it’s aiming to next year to begin operating New Glenn, its orbital launch automobile.
< a class="crunchbase-link"href="https://crunchbase.com/person/jeff-bezos"target="_ blank "data-type="person"data-entity =”jeff-bezos”> Jeff Bezos- founded space technology business Blue Origin formally cut the ribbon to open its brand-new HQ and R&D center, situated in Kent, Wash.– close by to Amazon’s own head office. The new facility covers 230,000 square feet and sits on a plot of land over 30 acres in size, and will become the base of operations for around 1,500 Blue Origin workers.