Blue Origin officially opens its new HQ and R&D center
Horn, West Texas; and Huntsville, Ala. It also plans to open a dedicated engine production facility in Alabama this March. 2020 should also see Blue Origin fly its first human guests aboard New Shepard, its sub-orbital rocket, which is currently well along the path to human accreditation, and it’s seeking to next year to start running New Glenn, its orbital launch car.
< a class="crunchbase-link"href="https://crunchbase.com/person/jeff-bezos"target="_ blank "data-type="person"data-entity =”jeff-bezos”> Jeff Bezos- founded area technology company Blue Origin formally cut the ribbon to open its brand-new HQ and R&D center, situated in Kent, Wash.– nearby to Amazon’s own headquarters. The brand-new facility covers 230,000 square feet and rests on a plot of land over 30 acres in size, and will eventually be the main office for around 1,500 Blue Origin workers.
The new HQ is called the O’Neill Building, named after Princeton University physicist Gerard O’Neill. O’Neill is known for his deal with NASA in the 1970s, conceiving possible future innovation for sustained human presence in area– including the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are large habitats developed to spin to duplicate Earth’s gravity for long-term residents and for on-board agriculture. 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 people on each station, to help develop a brand-new extension of humankind’s home in the world. In overall, Blue Origin employs more than 2,500 individuals, consisting of at its centers in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Van