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 will launch the 29th mission of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle next week, on an uncrewed research flight that will simulate lunar gravity ... to the moon via its Artemis program ...

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 ...

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 ...

These methods are both expensive and they don't result in long times of Moon gravity simulation – mere seconds of the special conditions, which most of the time are not enough. On Tuesday ...

Blue Origin will launch its first suborbital rocket launch of 2025 today — and attempt a wild spin trick to mimic the moon's gravity during ... conveyors and other devices that could be used ...

Jeff Bezos’ rocket company gave NASA a brief taste of the moon’s gravity Tuesday, without straying too far from home. Blue Origin launched the 29 lunar technology experiments to the edge of ...

"The payloads will experience at least two minutes of lunar gravity forces, a first for New Shepard and made possible in part through support from NASA." Blue Origin will launch the 29th mission ...