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 business Blue Origin formally cut the ribbon to open its new HQ and R&D facility, situated in Kent, Wash.– nearby to Amazon’s own head office. The new facility covers 230,000 square feet and sits on a plot of land over 30 acres in size, and will ultimately be the base of operations for around 1,500 Blue Origin workers.
Horn, West Texas; and Huntsville, Ala. It likewise plans to open a devoted engine production center in Alabama this March. 2020 need to likewise see Blue Origin fly its first human guests 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 start operating New Glenn, its orbital launch vehicle.
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 possible future technology for sustained human presence in space– including the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are big environments developed to spin to duplicate Earth’s gravity for long-term homeowners and for on-board agriculture. Bezos last year discussed making O’Neill’s vision of the future a truth, detailing
how the habitats may be able to house as numerous as a million people on each station, to help develop a brand-new extension of humanity’s home on Earth. In overall, Blue Origin employs more than 2,500 people, consisting of at its facilities in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Van