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Ares I-X Rocket Test Launch Successful for NASA

Written by Heidi Lux

Wednesday, 28 October 2009

The Ares I-X Rocket Test Launch The Ares I-X rocket was successfully tested on Wednesday, October 28th at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Ares I-X rocket was launched on 11:30, and the test flight lasted six minutes total.

The test was the second launch attempt in two days. On October 27th, the test was put off for the 28th due to unfavorable weather. The Tuesday morning wind exceeded the 20-knot limit for testing. The moisture in the clouds also caused concerns static build up would occur on the rocket and lead to communication issues.

The Ares I-X is built on cutting-edge technology evolved from decades of NASA spaceflight experience. The rocket utilizes an Ares I-X Rocket updated version of the Saturn V rocket employed in the 1960s to bring astronauts to the moon.

The Ares I-X rocket stands 327 feet tall (taller than the Statue of Liberty). 2.6 million pounds of thrust is produced in order to accelerate the rocket, and enables the rocket to reach a speed just below hypersonic speed. During the test, the Ares I-X reached an altitude of 150,000 feet after the separation of a four-segment solid rocket booster.

The test flight allowed NASA to preview the rockets hardware, facilities and ground operations, which was monitored through 700 sensors placed on the Ares I-X rocket. The sensors gathered information during the assembly and launch, during the separation of the rocket booster, and during re-entry. The larger flight test program of the Ares I-X will provide data for future launch vehicles.

"This is a huge step forward for NASA's exploration goals," said Doug Cooke, associate administrator for the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "Ares I-X provides NASA with an enormous amount of data that will be used to improve the design and safety of the next generation of American spaceflight v Ares I-X Rocket Test Launch ehicles -- vehicles that could again take humans beyond low Earth orbit."

The Ares I-X rockets will be used in the Orion program. Orion will replace the Space Shuttle program by 2015. Orion will take crews of four to six astronauts to orbit Earth, as well as deliver resources and supplies to the International Space Station by 2014.

Orion is intended to take crewed missions to the moon by 2020. NASA also plans to conduct the first human trip to Mars via Orion.

For more information on Ares I-X and Orion, go to http://www.nasa.gov/aresIX

For information on the Ares I-X rocket’s delay, go here.

For more news on NASA go here.

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Lucien BONNET - Ares I-X Rocket Test Launch Successful for NASA

|Your IP Address :76.67.176.xxx |2009-10-28 20:38:46

RE:
Ares I-X Rocket Test Launch Successful for NASA

Written by Heidi
Lux
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
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IN THE DEPTH
OF THE UNKNOWN,
THERE ARE NECESSARY CONQUESTS

The well-known NASA scientist
and author of popular scientific works, Professor Carl Sagan, together with his
wife Linda, among other people, wrote the famous Space Message engraved on
Pioneer 10 and meant for possible extraterrestrial civilizations which might be
discovered -- who knows? -- somewhere in our Galaxy. Professor Sagan is a master
of the art of using humor, and he is fond of allegories. That is why Lucien
Bonnet wrote to him in the form of a parable on April 10, 1978.

Montreal,
April 10, 1978

Dear Dr. Sagan:

It sometimes happens that a dreambecomes
a reality. That's the case today. Through Mr. Emil P. Ericksen, Economic Officer
of the Consulate General of the United States of America in Montreal, I amin
communication with the American scientist whose works and research I most
admire.

I would like to address a simple message to Professor Carl Sagan and
his wife, who feel, as the year 2000 approaches, that the time is ripe to make
our presence known by sending signals to other possible intelligent beings in
the Universe. The message, which is the result of my patient research, I
formulate as follows:

On the cosmic scale, as on the terrestrial scale,
blackness is an integral part of color and light processes.

My purpose is to
inform you of this particular subject and the reasons that have led me to carry
out my research, in the context of the problems of the very small country, whose
history is as tortured as its geography, where I was born and grew up: Haiti,
whose name means "land of mountains". This country has been faced for
years with the difficulties inherent to any collectivity confronted with a

Harold

|Your IP Address :174.16.29.xxx |2009-10-28 18:45:31

NASA needs to accelerate the Ares 1 program to replace the shuttle. The problem
is the Obama administration. They don't like success and to prove their point
they killed funding last week on the Constellation Lunar lander. The Obama
administration wants to moth ball NASA and the cape and replace it with a rag
tag group of sub-contracted low bid firms.

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