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Blue Origin Sells NASA Artificial Gravity to Simulate the Moon – BloombergQuint

Blue Origin Sells NASA Artificial Gravity to Simulate the Moon

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(Bloomberg) — Jeff Bezoss Blue Origin LLC will provide NASA with a research environment to help simulate gravity conditions on the moon, rotating its New Shepard spacecraft 11 times a minute on suborbital flights starting late next year.
Whenever humans return to the lunar surface for an extended period, its unique gravity — one-sixth of Earths — will be one of multiple hurdles NASA has to master.
One of the constant challenges with living and working in space is reduced gravity, Christopher…

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