It will take an energy-efficient path relying heavily on the Earth and moon’s gravity in a winding series of flybys to steer its trajectory, similar to the Japanese space agency’s SLIM which ...

Partners use Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket to test out technologies bound for the moon—without actually sending them there ...

Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket and spacecraft completed its moon-gravity mission, but the capsule appeared to have a slight ...

Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company Blue Origin simulated lunar gravity conditions today (Feb. 4) during the 29th launch of its ...

The New Shepard mission is far from the first to carry scientific payloads to the edge of space, but it was the first to ...

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

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 ...

Jeff Bezos' rocket company has given NASA a brief taste of the moon's gravity without ... first attempt at mimicking lunar gravity, which is one-sixth that of Earth. NASA said it wants to test ...

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 ...

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 ...