Blue Origin officially opens its new HQ and R&D center
Horn, West Texas; and Huntsville, Ala. It also plans to open a devoted engine production facility in Alabama this March. 2020 need to also see Blue Origin fly its first human passengers 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 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 new HQ and R&D facility, situated in Kent, Wash.– close by to Amazon’s own head office. The new center covers 230,000 square feet and rests on a plot of land over 30 acres in size, and will eventually be the base of operations 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 deal with NASA in the 1970s, developing potential future technology for continual human existence in area– including the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are large habitats developed to spin to duplicate Earth’s gravity for long-lasting locals and for on-board agriculture. Bezos in 2015 went over making O’Neill’s vision of the future a truth, detailing
how the habitats may be able to house as many as a million people on each station, to assist develop a brand-new extension of humanity’s home on Earth. In overall, Blue Origin uses more than 2,500 individuals, including at its centers in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Van