Blue Origin officially opens its new HQ and R&D center
Horn, West Texas; and Huntsville, Ala. It likewise prepares to open a devoted engine manufacturing center in Alabama this March. 2020 need to also see Blue Origin fly its first human travelers 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.
< a class="crunchbase-link"href="https://crunchbase.com/person/jeff-bezos"target="_ blank "data-type="individual"data-entity =”jeff-bezos”> Jeff Bezos- established space innovation business 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 headquarters. The new facility covers 230,000 square feet and sits on a plot of land over 30 acres in size, and will become the main office for around 1,500 Blue Origin workers.
The brand-new HQ is called the O’Neill Building, named after Princeton University physicist Gerard O’Neill. O’Neill is known for his work with NASA in the 1970s, developing prospective future innovation for sustained human presence in space– consisting of the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are big habitats designed to spin to replicate Earth’s gravity for long-term citizens and for on-board farming. Bezos last year talked about making O’Neill’s vision of the future a truth, detailing
how the habitats might be able to house as numerous as a million people on each station, to assist establish a brand-new extension of humanity’s home on Earth. In overall, Blue Origin employs more than 2,500 individuals, including at its centers in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Van