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="individual"data-entity =”jeff-bezos”> Jeff Bezos- founded area technology company Blue Origin officially cut the ribbon to open its new HQ and R&D facility, situated in Kent, Wash.– close by to Amazon’s own headquarters. The new facility covers 230,000 square feet and sits on a plot of land over 30 acres in size, and will eventually be the base of operations for around 1,500 Blue Origin staff members.
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 technology for sustained human existence in area– including the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are big environments created to spin to reproduce Earth’s gravity for long-term residents and for on-board agriculture. Bezos in 2015 went over making O’Neill’s vision of the future a truth, detailing
how the environments might be able to house as lots of as a million people on each station, to assist develop a new extension of mankind’s home in the world. In total, Blue Origin utilizes 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 dedicated engine manufacturing center in Alabama this March. 2020 must likewise see Blue Origin fly its very first human travelers aboard New Shepard, its sub-orbital rocket, which is currently well along the path to human certification, and it’s wanting to next year to start operating New Glenn, its orbital launch vehicle.