Jeff Bezos' rocket company has given NASA a brief taste of the moon's gravity without straying too far from home.

The 320-foot New Glenn rocket was initially scheduled to launch early Monday with a prototype satellite aboard.

The experiments launched abroad Blue Origin's New Shepard were mainly sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The tests included ways to keep lunar dust off of astronauts tools and spacesuits.

Blue Origin launched a spacecraft that can simulate lunar gravity into suborbital space during a research flight from West Texas.

Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company Blue Origin simulated lunar gravity conditions today (Feb. 4) during the 29th launch of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle.

Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket and spacecraft completed its moon-gravity mission, but the capsule appeared to have a slight hiccup on its return when one of its parachutes did not open entirely on Tuesday.

For the first time, Blue Origin put its New Shepard suborbital rocket ship through a couple of minutes' worth of moon-level gravity.