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 space technology business 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 center covers 230,000 square feet and sits on a plot of land over 30 acres in size, and will ultimately be the base of operations for around 1,500 Blue Origin staff members.
Horn, West Texas; and Huntsville, Ala. It likewise prepares to open a devoted engine production center in Alabama this March. 2020 ought to likewise see Blue Origin fly its very first human guests aboard New Shepard, its sub-orbital rocket, which is currently well along the path to human certification, and it’s aiming to next year to start running New Glenn, its orbital launch vehicle.
The new HQ is called the O’Neill Building, called after Princeton University physicist Gerard O’Neill. O’Neill is known for his deal with NASA in the 1970s, developing potential future innovation for continual human existence in area– including the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are big habitats created to spin to replicate Earth’s gravity for long-lasting citizens and for on-board farming. Bezos last year discussed making O’Neill’s vision of the future a truth, detailing
how the habitats might be able to house as numerous as a million individuals on each station, to assist establish a brand-new extension of humankind’s house in the world. In overall, Blue Origin uses more than 2,500 people, consisting of at its facilities in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Van