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- founded area technology company Blue Origin officially cut the ribbon to open its new HQ and R&D facility, located in Kent, Wash.– nearby to Amazon’s own headquarters. The new facility 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 staff members.
Horn, West Texas; and Huntsville, Ala. It likewise prepares to open a dedicated engine production facility in Alabama this March. 2020 should also see Blue Origin fly its very first human passengers aboard New Shepard, its sub-orbital rocket, which is currently well along the course to human accreditation, and it’s seeking to next year to begin running New Glenn, its orbital launch automobile.
The new HQ is called the O’Neill Building, called after Princeton University physicist Gerard O’Neill. O’Neill is understood for his work with NASA in the 1970s, conceiving prospective future innovation for continual human existence in area– consisting of the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are large environments created to spin to duplicate Earth’s gravity for long-term citizens and for on-board farming. Bezos in 2015 discussed making O’Neill’s vision of the future a truth, detailing
how the environments may be able to house as lots of as a million individuals on each station, to help establish a brand-new extension of humankind’s home in the world. In overall, Blue Origin uses more than 2,500 individuals, including at its facilities in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Van