<span style="color: #222222;">NASA has successfully launched a rocket from Australia's remote Northern Territory, making history as the agency's first commercial spaceport launch outside the United States.<br />”</span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;">According to Equatorial Launch Australia, the rocket blasted off at just past midnight local time on Monday from the Arnhem Space Centre on the Dhupuma Plateau, near the township of Nhulunbuy.<br />”</span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;">The rocket is expected to travel more than 300 kilometres into space on its mission to observe the Alpha Centauri 'A' and 'B' constellations, the nearest star systems to the Earth.<br />”</span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;">Monday's Launch also made history for Australia as the first commercial space launch in the country. According to NASA, it was the first of three launches, with a further two planned for 4th and 12th of July. These will carry out astrophysical studies that can only be done from the Southern Hemisphere.</span><br />