Blue Origin officially opens its new HQ and R&D center
The brand-new HQ is called the O’Neill Building, named after Princeton University physicist Gerard O’Neill. O’Neill is understood for his deal with NASA in the 1970s, developing possible future technology for sustained human existence in space– including the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are big environments created to spin to replicate Earth’s gravity for long-term locals and for on-board farming. Bezos last year talked about making O’Neill’s vision of the future a reality, detailing
how the habitats may be able to house as lots of as a million individuals on each station, to assist develop a brand-new extension of mankind’s house on Earth. In overall, Blue Origin uses more than 2,500 people, 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 should also see Blue Origin fly its first human travelers aboard New Shepard, its sub-orbital rocket, which is currently well along the course to human certification, and it’s aiming to next year to begin running New Glenn, its orbital launch lorry.
< a class="crunchbase-link"href="https://crunchbase.com/person/jeff-bezos"target="_ blank "data-type="individual"data-entity =”jeff-bezos”> Jeff Bezos- established space innovation business Blue Origin formally cut the ribbon to open its new HQ and R&D facility, situated in Kent, Wash.– close by to Amazon’s own head office. The brand-new center covers 230,000 square feet and sits on a plot of land over 30 acres in size, and will become the main office for around 1,500 Blue Origin workers.