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 famed New Shepard spacecraft successfully simulated the moon's low gravity on board its capsule during a brief ...

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

4 (UPI) --Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket and spacecraft completed its moon-gravity mission ... on Monday evening from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Science News // 2 days ...

European scientists are turning an aircraft into a laboratory that simulates lunar gravity to prepare astronauts and technology for future moon landings as part of the NASA-led Artemis missions. The ...

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 ...

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 ...