Blue Origin officially opens its new HQ and R&D center
The new HQ is called the O’Neill Building, called after Princeton University physicist Gerard O’Neill. O’Neill is known for his work with NASA in the 1970s, developing possible future innovation for continual human existence in space– consisting of the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are large environments created to spin to replicate Earth’s gravity for long-term residents and for on-board farming. Bezos last year discussed making O’Neill’s vision of the future a truth, detailing
how the habitats might be able to house as numerous as a million individuals on each station, to assist establish a brand-new extension of humankind’s house on Earth. In total, Blue Origin employs more than 2,500 individuals, including at its facilities in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Van
Horn, West Texas; and Huntsville, Ala. It likewise plans to open a dedicated engine manufacturing facility in Alabama this March. 2020 must also see Blue Origin fly its very first human passengers aboard New Shepard, its sub-orbital rocket, which is presently well along the course to human certification, and it’s looking to next year to start 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- founded space technology company Blue Origin officially cut the ribbon to open its brand-new HQ and R&D facility, located in Kent, Wash.– close by to Amazon’s own headquarters. The brand-new center 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 workers.