By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin on Friday said it was "pausing" flights of its New Shepard rocket for at least two years, effectively cancelling the company's centerpiece space tourism vehicle to focus instead on efforts to build a moon lander for NASA.

Who's up for a late-night rocket launch? Weather permitting, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket may be visible from Palm Beach County on Thursday, Jan. 29.

A coalition of homebuyers has filed a class-action lawsuit against Rocket Companies Inc. and affiliated entities 一 including Rocket Mortgage LLC, Amrock Holdings LLC, and Rocket Homes Real Estate LLC 一 alleging illegal practices that steered borrowers into disadvantageous mortgages and inflated home-buying costs.

The New Shepard rocket from Blue Origin, which brought 92 people on trips to the edge of space, will cease flying for at least two years as the company prioritizes NASA contracts.

The "hungry hippo" fairing for Rocket Lab's new Neutron launch vehicle has arrived for integration at the company's Virginia Spaceport facilities.

Blue Origin is pausing flights aboard its suborbital space tourism rocket New Shepard in order to expedite development of a lunar lander for NASA’s Artemis program.

Canada Rocket Company emerges from stealth. A Toronto-based launch startup, Canada Rocket Company, emerged from stealth earlier this month with the announcement of a $6.2 million CDN ($4.5 million) seed funding round—and with plans to create sovereign light- and medium-lift launch capabilities,

The Artemis II mission that will take a crew of astronauts around the moon and back to Earth is expected to launch no earlier than February 6, 2026.

The mighty Starship rocket could take its 12th test flight as early as March, according SpaceX chief Elon Musk. In a post on X on Monday, Musk shared a photo of the massive rocket in an earlier flight,