Blue Origin officially opens its new HQ and R&D center
The new HQ is called the O’Neill Building, named after Princeton University physicist Gerard O’Neill. O’Neill is known for his work with NASA in the 1970s, conceiving prospective future technology for continual human existence in area– including the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are big habitats developed to spin to duplicate Earth’s gravity for long-term homeowners and for on-board farming. Bezos last year talked about making O’Neill’s vision of the future a reality, detailing
how the environments might be able to house as numerous as a million people on each station, to help establish a new extension of humanity’s home in the world. In overall, Blue Origin employs more than 2,500 individuals, including at its facilities in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Van
Horn, West Texas; and Huntsville, Ala. It also prepares to open a dedicated engine production facility in Alabama this March. 2020 ought to likewise see Blue Origin fly its first human guests aboard New Shepard, its sub-orbital rocket, which is presently well along the path to human accreditation, and it’s aiming to next year to begin running New Glenn, its orbital launch automobile.
< 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 company Blue Origin formally cut the ribbon to open its brand-new HQ and R&D facility, located in Kent, Wash.– close by to Amazon’s own head office. The new center covers 230,000 square feet and rests on a plot of land over 30 acres in size, and will ultimately be the main office for around 1,500 Blue Origin staff members.