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ExtremeTech NASA and Blue Origin Will Simulate Lunar Gravity With Spinning Rockets By Ryan Whitwam on March 15, 2021 at 7:30 am This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Jeff Bezos recently announced he would step down as Amazon’s CEO, allowing him to devote more time to building rockets. That’s what billionaires do these days — just ask Elon Musk. Bezos’ Blue Origin rockets are still taking shape, but the company has announced a partnership with NASA to improve artificial gravity testing. Basically, they’re going to make r...

As a greater testing ground for these emerging technologies, NASA will soon have more options for observing those innovations in lunar gravity thanks to a collaboration with Blue Origin to bring fresh capabilities to their New Shepard reusable suborbital rocket system. Right now, NASA can replicate the Moon’s limited gravity on parabolic flights in converted aircraft like the retired KC-135 "Vomit Comet" that helped train astronauts from 1994 to 2004, and in special centrifuges aboard suborbital vehicles. NASA currently employs a Navy C-9 aircraft for their Limited Gravity Program, ...