Jeff Bezos’ rocket company has given NASA a brief taste of the moon’s gravity without straying too far from home.

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

“New Shepard’s ability to provide a lunar gravity environment is an extremely unique and valuable capability as researchers set their sights on a return to the moon,” said Blue Origin’s ...

Blue Origin, the space company Jeff Bezos founded in 2000, may also debut a prototype of its lunar lander. The spacecraft, called Blue Moon, is one of two vehicles NASA has picked to potentially ...

Blue Origin may have the Artemis V moon landing, but the first moon landing since 1972—recently delayed to at least mid-2027—will be using SpaceX hardware. Elon Musk’s company won contracts ...

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 the flight — but if you want to see it live ...

Blue Origin publicly released the high-level design of the vehicle and announced the name New Glenn—with both two-stage and three-stage variants planned—in September 2016. SpaceX conducted Falcon ...

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin readied the company's powerful New ... Texas, launch site. A variant of the rocket's Starship upper stage is being built for NASA to carry astronauts from lunar orbit ...

Blue Origin hopes to launch about a half-dozen more New Glenn flights this year — and eventually, it may haul spacecraft and astronauts into orbit and onto the moon. “There’s room for lots ...

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin readied the company's powerful New ... Texas, launch site. A variant of the rocket's Starship upper stage is being built for NASA to carry astronauts from lunar orbit ...

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 the flight — but if you want to see it live, you'll need to ...