Partners use Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket to test out technologies bound for the moon—without actually sending them there ...
Jeff Bezos’ rocket company has given NASA a brief taste of the moon’s gravity without straying too far from home.
There is only one way to experience lunar gravity while still on Earth, or rather a few thousand feet above its surface: on a parabolic flight. In this exclusive mini-documentary, Space.com reporter ...
Blue Origin just launched a first-of-its kind mission to suborbital space. The company, which was founded by Amazon's Jeff ...
Blue Origin's famed New Shepard spacecraft simulated the moon's low gravity on board its capsule during a brief flight ...
Now, gravity’s effect on the Earth continues to mold our planet from ... and perhaps even create artificial gravity on the Moon and other places we visit. Josh Hawkins has been writing for ...
Jeff Bezos’ rocket company gave NASA a brief taste of the moon’s gravity Tuesday ... first attempt at mimicking lunar gravity, which is one-sixth that of Earth. This image provided by Blue ...
but it was the first to mimic the moon's gravity. The gravitational pull of the lunar surface is about 1/6 that of Earth's, meaning a person who weighs about 100 pounds would feel closer to just ...
Another one, called the Lunar-g Combustion Investigation, studied "how materials catch fire in the moon's gravity compared to Earth's," Blue Origin wrote. "The findings will help NASA and its ...