Construction is starting on a multi-million-dollar spaceport in a US desert that is meant to launch private citizens into space.

WITH his nine successive national senior titles secured and his place in the history books assured, Olympic silver medallist Kenneth Egan will step outside the comfort zone of domestic boxing tonight to take on Fiju Shabazz when Ireland host the United States at the National Stadium (7.30pm).

A rocket carrying the ashes of actor James Doohan – Scotty on Star Trek – and astronaut Gordon Cooper should be recovered within a week from a remote New Mexico mountain range, the launch company said.

A 14-YEAR-OLD boy has been arrested on charges of murdering his father, stepmother and stepsister after their bodies were found at a ranch in New Mexico.