{"id":60724,"date":"2020-01-07T18:43:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T10:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/blue-origin-opens-new-headquarters-in-kent-washington\/"},"modified":"2020-01-07T18:43:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T10:43:39","slug":"blue-origin-opens-new-headquarters-in-kent-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/blue-origin-opens-new-headquarters-in-kent-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin Opens New Headquarters in Kent, Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blue Origin<\/strong> opened its new headquarters and R&amp;D facility in Kent, Washington on Monday. The new hub for the Jeff Bezos-owned spaceflight company is named the O\u2019Neill Building after physicist Gerard O\u2019Neill, who explored the idea of human space colonies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>CEO Bob Smith said at the ribbon cutting that Blue Origin grew by a third in 2019 and plans to keep growing rapidly. The facility, which was built over a period of 11 months, will house approximately 1,500 people. The building sits on a 30-acre plot of land, 13 acres of which are used for wildlife habitat and flood storage. Smith said the building has better insulation and better energy consumption than a traditional building.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a remarkable statement to say that we\u2019re going to fly humans to space, we\u2019re going to build and design large engines and a large orbital rocket, and we\u2019re going to go back to the Moon \u2013 all through work centered here,\u201d Smith said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Origin opened its new headquarters and R&amp;D facility in Kent, Washington on Monday. The new hub for the Jeff Bezos-owned spaceflight company is named the O\u2019Neill Building after physicist Gerard O\u2019Neill, who explored the idea of human space colonies.&nbsp; CEO Bob Smith said at the ribbon cutting that Blue Origin grew by a third [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}