Blue Origin officially opens its new HQ and R&D center
Horn, West Texas; and Huntsville, Ala. It likewise plans to open a dedicated engine manufacturing center in Alabama this March. 2020 should likewise see Blue Origin fly its very first human passengers 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 operating New Glenn, its orbital launch vehicle.
The brand-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 potential future technology for sustained human existence in space– including the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are big habitats created to spin to replicate Earth’s gravity for long-lasting residents and for on-board farming. Bezos last year discussed making O’Neill’s vision of the future a reality, detailing
how the habitats may be able to house as many as a million individuals on each station, to help develop a brand-new extension of humanity’s home in the world. In total, Blue Origin uses more than 2,500 people, including at its facilities in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Van
< a class="crunchbase-link"href="https://crunchbase.com/person/jeff-bezos"target="_ blank "data-type="person"data-entity =”jeff-bezos”> Jeff Bezos- established space innovation company Blue Origin formally cut the ribbon to open its brand-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 rests on a plot of land over 30 acres in size, and will become the main office for around 1,500 Blue Origin staff members.