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

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.

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.

Bezos' rocketeers tout capability as useful for NASA and other tech providers Blue Origin has sent its reusable New Shepard rocket on another suborbital lob, this time simulating lunar gravity for capsule payloads.