Blue Origin officially opens its new HQ and R&D center
O’Neill is known for his work with NASA in the 1970s, conceiving potential future technology for sustained human presence in space– including the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are large habitats developed to spin to duplicate Earth’s gravity for long-term citizens and for on-board agriculture. It likewise plans to open a devoted engine production center in Alabama this March. 2020 ought to likewise see Blue Origin fly its very first human travelers aboard New Shepard, its sub-orbital rocket, which is currently well along the course to human accreditation, and it’s looking to next year to start operating New Glenn, its orbital launch automobile.