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- established space technology company Blue Origin officially cut the ribbon to open its new HQ and R&D center, located in Kent, Wash.– nearby to Amazon’s own head office. The brand-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.
Horn, West Texas; and Huntsville, Ala. It likewise prepares to open a dedicated engine production facility in Alabama this March. 2020 ought to likewise see Blue Origin fly its first human travelers aboard New Shepard, its sub-orbital rocket, which is currently well along the path to human certification, and it’s aiming to next year to start running New Glenn, its orbital launch car.
The brand-new HQ is called the O’Neill Building, called after Princeton University physicist Gerard O’Neill. O’Neill is understood for his deal 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 environments developed to spin to replicate Earth’s gravity for long-term homeowners and for on-board agriculture. Bezos in 2015 went over making O’Neill’s vision of the future a truth, detailing
how the environments may be able to house as lots of as a million individuals on each station, to assist establish a new extension of mankind’s home on Earth. In total, Blue Origin employs more than 2,500 individuals, including at its centers in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Van