Blue Origin is going to add fake gravity to its spacecraft

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Here on the surface of Earth our options to alter gravity are limited. Well, not even "limited," really, they're pretty much nonexistent. In space, things change a bit, and we know the basic principles of generating artificial gravity (you have to spin something big and then stand on the inside of it, basically), but there aren't any spacecraft that are capable of actually doing that yet.

That could change soon, as NASA just announced a new partnership between itself and Blue Origin — the space startup founded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos — to outfit the company's New Shepard spacecraft with capabilities that would allow it to simulate the gravity one would feel on the surface of the Moon. The company plans to accomplish this by using its control systems to produce a rotation of the capsule at a speed that approximates the gravitational pull of the Moon.

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