Blue Origin officially opens its new HQ and R&D center
O’Neill is known for his work with NASA in the 1970s, developing potential future innovation for sustained human existence in space– consisting of the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are large environments designed to spin to replicate Earth’s gravity for long-term citizens and for on-board farming. It also prepares to open a devoted engine manufacturing facility in Alabama this March. 2020 should also see Blue Origin fly its first human passengers aboard New Shepard, its sub-orbital rocket, which is presently well along the course to human certification, and it’s looking to next year to start running New Glenn, its orbital launch car.