For the first time, Blue Origin put its New Shepard suborbital rocket ship through a couple of minutes' worth of moon-level ...

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

The capsule, carrying 30 science payloads, landed in the desert 10 minutes after liftoff, slowed by parachutes and a final ...

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

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

Blue Origin’s NS-29 mission simulated Moon gravity to support lunar research, with key experiments funded by NASA.

Blue Origin launches 6 people to space, lands safely on NS-26 flight ... The reusable rocket-capsule combo last flew people on Nov. 22, a mission that sent "The Space Gal" Emily Calandrelli ...

a boundary internationally recognized to mark the start of space. The capsule should make its own reentry and landing under parachutes near its launch site. One major departure from Blue Origin's ...

So NS-29 will mimic lunar gravity conditions for two minutes, by spinning New Shepard's capsule at a rate of ... Related: New Shepard: Rocket for space tourism RELATED STORIES: — Facts about New ...

But NS-29 is not a space tourist flight; the capsule is packed with 30 research payloads, "all but one of which is focused on testing lunar-related technologies," Blue Origin wrote in a mission ...

At its peak, the capsule reached 65 miles (104 kilometres), just above the official threshold for space and landed vertically seven minutes after liftoff. Blue Origin are working on New Glenn ...