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NASA Ares I X Rocket Launch Wed, 28 Oct 2009

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An Orion Spacecraft With Helicopter Blades?

It was one of the rocket designs that appeared during the early days of the space age, a concept that now appears to be given a second life at NASAs Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. It also saw a variant of the concept appear during the early days of the NewSpace movement. What is it? A spacecraft - with rotor blades.
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Ares I-X was the first stage prototype and design concept demonstrator in the Ares I program, a launch system for human spaceflight developed by the United States space agency, NASA. Ares I-X was successfully launched on October 28, 2009.
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Lockheed Martin Orion Team Fabricates World's Largest Heat Shield Structure

The Lockheed Martin led team developing the Orion crew exploration vehicle achieved a major technology milestone by completing fabrication of the world's largest heat shield structure. The shield is five metres in diameter and is critical to the protection of the spacecraft and its crew from the extreme temperatures experienced during re-entry. The work was completed at Lockheed Martin's composite development facility in Denver, Colo.
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President Obama said America must stop spending dollars "like Monopoly money" today as he scrapped Nasa plans to send astronauts back to the Moon.
Outlining a widespread freeze on government spending and $20 billion in budget cuts, the President blamed the Bush Administration for unfunded tax cuts and multi-billion dollar spending sprees.
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NASA to get more money, but must scratch moon plan

President Barack Obama is essentially grounding efforts to return astronauts to the moon and instead is sending NASA in new directions with roughly $6 billion more, according to officials familiar with the plans.
A White House official confirmed Thursday that when next week's budget is proposed, NASA will get an additional $5.9 billion over five years, as first reported in Florida newspapers. Some of that money would extend the life of the International Space Station to 2020. It also would be used to entice companies to build private spacecraft to ferry astronauts to the space station after the space shuttle retires, said the official who was not authorised to speak by name.
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Ares 1 is 'safest choice' to replace shuttle

An independent safety panel backed NASA's beleaguered Ares programme, because it has been designed with safe human travel in mind from the outset
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I'm referring to NASA's recent launch of the Ares 1-X billed love the prototype of the Ares 1 love a crew launch vehicle a fantasy semester for a manned space booster. The rocket is said to have performed love planned and ushered in the era of the Ares rockets to replace the Space Shuttle next year. Only it won't. In fact the much-hyped Ares 1-X was much ado about nothing.

Yes the rocket that thundered aloft from NASA's Launch Pad 39B sure looked love an Ares 1. But that's where the resemblance stops. Turns out the solid booster was - literally - bought from the Space Shuttle program since a five-segment booster being designed for Ares wasn't ready. So they put a fake can on top of the four-segmented motor to seem love the real thing. Since the real Ares' upper stage rocket locomotive called the J-2X wasn't ready either they mounted a fake upper stage. No Orion capsule was ready so - you guessed it - they mounted a fake capsule with a real-looking except fake avoid rocket that wouldn't have worked if the booster had failed. Since the guidance system for Ares wasn't ready either they went and bought a unit from the Atlas rocket program and used it instead. Oh yes the parachutes to recover the booster were the real thing-and one of the three failed causing the booster to slam into the ocean like well fast and banging the thing up. So why you might beg if the entire machinery was a bit of slight-of-hand rocketry did NASA trouble to spend almost half a billion dollars (that's billion with a "b") in developing and launching the Ares 1-X?

The answer: politics.

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ARES I-X First Stage Booster return to Cape Canaveral after Launch



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