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 understood for his work with NASA in the 1970s, developing potential future innovation for sustained human presence in area– consisting of the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are large environments designed to spin to duplicate Earth’s gravity for long-term locals and for on-board farming. Bezos last year talked about making O’Neill’s vision of the future a reality, detailing
how the habitats may be able to house as many as a million individuals on each station, to help establish a new extension of humanity’s house in the world. In overall, Blue Origin employs more than 2,500 people, consisting of at its centers in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Van
Horn, West Texas; and Huntsville, Ala. It also plans to open a dedicated engine manufacturing center in Alabama this March. 2020 must likewise see Blue Origin fly its very first human passengers aboard New Shepard, its sub-orbital rocket, which is currently well along the path to human accreditation, and it’s aiming 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="person"data-entity =”jeff-bezos”> Jeff Bezos- founded space innovation business Blue Origin formally cut the ribbon to open its new HQ and R&D facility, located in Kent, Wash.– close by to Amazon’s own head office. The new center covers 230,000 square feet and rests on a plot of land over 30 acres in size, and will eventually be the base of operations for around 1,500 Blue Origin staff members.