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 innovation business Blue Origin formally cut the ribbon to open its new HQ and R&D center, located in Kent, Wash.– close by to Amazon’s own headquarters. The new facility covers 230,000 square feet and rests on a plot of land over 30 acres in size, and will become the base of operations for around 1,500 Blue Origin employees.
The new HQ is called the O’Neill Building, named after Princeton University physicist Gerard O’Neill. O’Neill is known for his deal with NASA in the 1970s, conceiving prospective future innovation for sustained human presence in area– including the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are large habitats designed to spin to replicate Earth’s gravity for long-lasting locals and for on-board farming. Bezos last year 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 help establish a new extension of humanity’s house in the world. In total, Blue Origin uses 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 dedicated engine production center in Alabama this March. 2020 should likewise see Blue Origin fly its first human travelers aboard New Shepard, its sub-orbital rocket, which is currently well along the course to human accreditation, and it’s looking to next year to start running New Glenn, its orbital launch car.