Blue Origin officially opens its new HQ and R&D center
The new HQ is called the O’Neill Building, named after Princeton University physicist Gerard O’Neill. O’Neill is understood for his work with NASA in the 1970s, developing possible future technology for sustained human existence in area– consisting of the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are large habitats designed to spin to reproduce Earth’s gravity for long-term locals and for on-board farming. Bezos in 2015 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 people on each station, to assist establish a new extension of humanity’s house in the world. In total, Blue Origin uses more than 2,500 people, including at its facilities in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Van
Horn, West Texas; and Huntsville, Ala. It likewise plans to open a dedicated engine production center in Alabama this March. 2020 need to 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 certification, and it’s wanting to next year to begin 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 technology company Blue Origin officially 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 brand-new facility covers 230,000 square feet and rests on a plot of land over 30 acres in size, and will ultimately be the main office for around 1,500 Blue Origin staff members.