WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Blue Origin’s suborbital New Shepard rocket lifted off from Texas on Tuesday carrying research payloads, a company live stream showed, in its first mission since a failure last year led to a 15-month grounding.
New Shepard lifted off from Blue Origin’s remote Van Horn, Texas launch site at roughly 10:40 a.m. CT and soared to space for a few minutes 66 miles (106 km) above ground before its rocket booster returned back to land in tact.
At peak altitude, the booster deployed 33 research experiments encapsulated in a gumdrop-shaped pod, which also softly returned to land under parachutes minutes later.
(Reporting by Joey Roulette; Editing by Mark Porter)
