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

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.

Blue Origin is targeting Feb. 4 for the 29th launch of its New Shepard suborbital rocket, which was postponed from Jan. 28 due to weather and technical issues.