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 prospective future innovation for continual human existence in space– including the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are large environments designed to spin to replicate 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 lots of as a million people on each station, to assist establish a brand-new extension of humanity’s home on Earth. In total, Blue Origin utilizes more than 2,500 people, consisting of at its centers in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Van
Horn, West Texas; and Huntsville, Ala. It also prepares to open a dedicated engine manufacturing facility in Alabama this March. 2020 ought to likewise see Blue Origin fly its first human travelers aboard New Shepard, its sub-orbital rocket, which is currently well along the path to human accreditation, and it’s looking to next year to start operating New Glenn, its orbital launch car.
< a class="crunchbase-link"href="https://crunchbase.com/person/jeff-bezos"target="_ blank "data-type="individual"data-entity =”jeff-bezos”> Jeff Bezos- founded area innovation business Blue Origin officially cut the ribbon to open its brand-new HQ and R&D center, 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 base of operations for around 1,500 Blue Origin workers.