When NASA sends a rover or other piece of technology to the moon, there is no guarantee it will work under lunar gravity—an object that weighs 100 pounds on Earth weighs just 16.5 pounds on the ...
The New Shepard mission is far from the first to carry scientific payloads to the edge of space, but it will be the first to attempt to simulate the moon's gravity. To pull off the feat ...
Blue Origin’s NS-29 mission simulated Moon gravity to support lunar research, with key experiments funded by NASA.
Blue Origin's famed New Shepard spacecraft successfully simulated the moon's low gravity on board its capsule during a brief flight Tuesday morning over West Texas. Video of the uncrewed launch ...