Blue Origin officially opens its new HQ and R&D center
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 potential future technology for sustained human presence in area– including the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are big habitats created to spin to reproduce Earth’s gravity for long-lasting citizens and for on-board agriculture. Bezos in 2015 talked about making O’Neill’s vision of the future a reality, detailing
how the habitats might be able to house as many as a million people on each station, to help establish a new extension of humanity’s house on Earth. In total, Blue Origin utilizes more than 2,500 people, consisting of at its facilities in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Van
Horn, West Texas; and Huntsville, Ala. It likewise plans to open a devoted engine manufacturing facility in Alabama this March. 2020 ought 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 accreditation, and it’s seeking to next year to begin running New Glenn, its orbital launch lorry.
< a class="crunchbase-link"href="https://crunchbase.com/person/jeff-bezos"target="_ blank "data-type="individual"data-entity =”jeff-bezos”> Jeff Bezos- founded space innovation business Blue Origin formally cut the ribbon to open its new HQ and R&D center, situated in Kent, Wash.– close by to Amazon’s own head office. The new center covers 230,000 square feet and sits on a plot of land over 30 acres in size, and will become the base of operations for around 1,500 Blue Origin staff members.