10 March 2021, 3:48 am EST By Blue Origin s New Shepard Rocket Plans to Sell Artificial Gravity to NASA ( Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images )
Jeff Bezos, Amazon and Blue Origin founder, has received backing from NASA to upgrade New Shepard, a suborbital spaceship, for future experiments on lunar levels of gravity.
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Sitting atop a 60-foot-tall rocket in a capsule designed for six people, you’ll listen to the countdown and then feel the engine ignite and rumble under you as you climb through the atmosphere. Accelerating to more than Mach 3 and experiencing forces equal to three times Earth’s gravitational force, you will count yourself as one of the few who have reached these speeds and crossed into space. You will then return to Earth as the capsule s parachutes deploy for a gentle landing back in the