Rocket, named Eris, designed to carry small satellites into orbit and launched from a newly established spaceport near town of Bowen in northern Queensland

Cosmonauts and astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) are readying the unmanned SpaceX Dragon spacecraft for its return flight to Earth later this week, NASA said in a statement on Tuesday

Two US astronauts will be carrying out a pair of spacewalks later this month to add two additional solar power arrays to the International Space Station (ISS), NASA officials told a press conference on Thursday