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="person"data-entity =”jeff-bezos”> Jeff Bezos- established space technology company Blue Origin formally cut the ribbon to open its brand-new HQ and R&D facility, situated in Kent, Wash.– nearby to Amazon’s own headquarters. 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 employees.
The brand-new HQ is called the O’Neill Building, called after Princeton University physicist Gerard O’Neill. O’Neill is known for his deal with NASA in the 1970s, conceiving prospective future innovation for continual human presence in space– consisting of the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are big habitats designed to spin to duplicate Earth’s gravity for long-term locals and for on-board agriculture. Bezos last year went over making O’Neill’s vision of the future a reality, detailing
how the environments may be able to house as numerous as a million individuals on each station, to help develop a new extension of humankind’s house in the world. In overall, Blue Origin employs more than 2,500 people, consisting of at its facilities in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Van
Horn, West Texas; and Huntsville, Ala. It also prepares to open a devoted engine production facility in Alabama this March. 2020 ought to also see Blue Origin fly its very first human guests aboard New Shepard, its sub-orbital rocket, which is presently well along the path to human accreditation, and it’s wanting to next year to begin running New Glenn, its orbital launch lorry.