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 ...

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 ...

Blue Origin’s NS-29 mission simulated Moon gravity to support lunar research, with key experiments funded by NASA.

American private space company Blue Origin managed to simulate the gravity of the Moon for about two minutes during New Shepard flight ...

Feb. 4 (UPI) --Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket and spacecraft completed its moon-gravity mission, but the capsule appeared to have a slight hiccup on its return when one of its parachutes did not ...