Blue Origin’s suborbital New Shepard rocket lifted off from Texas on December 19 in its first mission since a failure last year led to a 15-month grounding.A company live stream showed New Shepard lifting off from Blue Origin’s remote Van Horn, Texas launch site and soaring to space for a few minutes above ground before its rocket booster returned back to land.At peak altitude, the booster deployed 33 research experiments encapsulated in a gumdrop-shaped pod, which also returned to land under parachutes minutes later.