Blue Origin officially opens its new HQ and R&D center
Horn, West Texas; and Huntsville, Ala. It also plans to open a dedicated engine manufacturing center in Alabama this March. 2020 should also see Blue Origin fly its very first human guests aboard New Shepard, its sub-orbital rocket, which is currently well along the course to human certification, and it’s looking to next year to start operating 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 area technology business Blue Origin officially cut the ribbon to open its new HQ and R&D facility, situated in Kent, Wash.– nearby to Amazon’s own head office. The new facility covers 230,000 square feet and sits on a plot of land over 30 acres in size, and will eventually be the base of operations for around 1,500 Blue Origin employees.
The new HQ is called the O’Neill Building, named after Princeton University physicist Gerard O’Neill. O’Neill is understood for his deal with NASA in the 1970s, conceiving potential future innovation for sustained human presence in area– consisting of the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are large habitats designed to spin to replicate Earth’s gravity for long-term locals and for on-board agriculture. Bezos in 2015 discussed making O’Neill’s vision of the future a reality, detailing
how the environments might be able to house as many as a million individuals on each station, to help establish a new extension of humankind’s home on Earth. In total, Blue Origin utilizes more than 2,500 individuals, including at its centers in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Van