Blue Origin pulled off a sneaky-big win with the NS-29 mission. No crew, no flashy livestream—but inside that capsule? NASA was simulating lunar gravity by spinning it mid-flight. It’s not flashy, but it’s critical. Why? Because if we’re serious about putting people on the moon long-term, we need to know how water flows, bubbles form, and fire behaves when you don’t weigh as much.

As someone who’s spent a career watching tech swing between hype and hardware, this is the kind of experiment I love. Quiet, useful, science-forward.

Props to Purdue, JPL, and Honeybee Robotics for the payload work. This stuff might not trend—but it’s the kind of real research that makes the flashy headlines possible later.

📡 You can read the NS-29 mission page on Wikipedia for the details.