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 known for his work with NASA in the 1970s, conceiving prospective future technology for sustained human existence in space– including the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are big environments developed to spin to duplicate Earth’s gravity for long-lasting citizens and for on-board agriculture. Bezos last year talked about making O’Neill’s vision of the future a truth, detailing
how the habitats might be able to house as many as a million individuals on each station, to assist develop a new extension of humanity’s house in the world. In total, Blue Origin employs more than 2,500 people, including at its centers in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Van
Horn, West Texas; and Huntsville, Ala. It also prepares to open a devoted engine manufacturing facility in Alabama this March. 2020 need to likewise see Blue Origin fly its very first human passengers aboard New Shepard, its sub-orbital rocket, which is currently well along the path to human certification, and it’s looking to next year to begin operating New Glenn, its orbital launch automobile.
< a class="crunchbase-link"href="https://crunchbase.com/person/jeff-bezos"target="_ blank "data-type="person"data-entity =”jeff-bezos”> Jeff Bezos- founded space technology company Blue Origin formally cut the ribbon to open its new HQ and R&D facility, situated in Kent, Wash.– nearby to Amazon’s own headquarters. The new center covers 230,000 square feet and sits on a plot of land over 30 acres in size, and will eventually be the base of operations for around 1,500 Blue Origin employees.