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

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 ...

Mimicking the moon's gravity on spaceflights can accelerate research at much lower costs and future trips can “closely mirror ...