Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company Blue Origin simulated lunar gravity conditions today (Feb. 4) during the 29th launch of its ...

Partners use Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket to test out technologies bound for the moon—without actually sending them there ...

The New Shepard mission is far from the first to carry scientific payloads to the edge of space, but it was the first to ...

Carlos Villagomez owns a golf ball that he believes was flown to the moon. If indeed it was, he may also hold the answer to a ...

Jeff Bezos’ rocket company gave NASA a brief taste of the moon’s gravity Tuesday ... which is one-sixth that of Earth. This ...

One major departure from Blue Origin's past New Shepard flights is the spin maneuver to create the effect of one-sixth Earth's gravity (simulating the gravity of the moon) during the NS-29 mission.

A Blue Origin spacecraft will attempt to mimic lunar gravity in a daring maneuver during a planned Tuesday morning launch ...

Apollo 14 astronaut Al Shepard became the first person to hit a golf ball on the moon. Though he was there doing scientific ...

New Shepard is a launch vehicle designed to be fully reusable, with a capsule that returns to Earth via three parachutes ... first to attempt to simulate the moon's gravity.

However, one of the New Shepard crew capsule's three parachutes ... studied "how materials catch fire in the moon's gravity compared to Earth's," Blue Origin wrote. "The findings will help NASA ...

Shepard had NASA's permission to carry out the "moon shot" so long as it met the ... after exiting quarantine following his return to Earth. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket ...