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 deal with NASA in the 1970s, conceiving potential future technology for continual human existence in space– consisting of the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are large habitats created to spin to reproduce Earth’s gravity for long-term locals and for on-board farming. Bezos in 2015 discussed making O’Neill’s vision of the future a reality, detailing
how the environments might be able to house as many as a million individuals on each station, to assist establish a new extension of mankind’s home on Earth. In overall, Blue Origin utilizes more than 2,500 people, including at its centers in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Van
Horn, West Texas; and Huntsville, Ala. It also plans to open a dedicated engine production facility in Alabama this March. 2020 need to 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 certification, and it’s looking 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- established area innovation company Blue Origin formally cut the ribbon to open its new HQ and R&D facility, located in Kent, Wash.– nearby 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 ultimately be the base of operations for around 1,500 Blue Origin employees.