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Ares 1-X Rocket Launch Now Set for 10:54 am EDT

Orlando : FL : USA | about 1 month ago  
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  • The Ares 1-X rocket is poised for launch on pad 39B at Cape Canaveral
    The Ares 1-X rocket is poised for launch on pad 39B at Cape Canaveral
    Source: Reuters
  • Ares I-X test rocket sits atop launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral
    Ares I-X test rocket sits atop launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space ...
    Source: Reuters
  • The Ares I-X test rocket sits atop launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral
    The Ares I-X test rocket sits atop launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space ...
    Source: Reuters
  • Ares I-X test rocket sits on launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida
    Ares I-X test rocket sits on launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space ...
    Source: Reuters
  • Ares I-X test rocket sits on launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral
    Ares I-X test rocket sits on launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space ...
    Source: Reuters
  • NASA Administrator Bolden arrives at the VIP viewing site for the Ares I-X test rocket launch on a six-minute suborbital flight from launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral
    NASA Administrator Bolden arrives at the VIP viewing site for the Ares ...
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  • Former Apollo astronaut Al Worden arrives at the VIP viewing site for launch of the Ares I-X test rocket at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral
    Former Apollo astronaut Al Worden arrives at the VIP viewing site for ...
    Source: Reuters
The Ares 1-X rocket is poised for launch on pad 39B at Cape Canaveral

Weather permitting, and as long as stray ships stay out of the hazard zone offshore from Kenedy Space Center, we may see today one of the most exciting launches in recent history of what is the tallest rocket in the world, the Ares 1-X, before 11 am EDT.

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  • News Source: Fox News | 27 days ago
    Wednesday's Ares I-X rocket test flight, causing damage to the spent booster when it splashed into the Atlantic Ocean harder than planned. ," said Ares I-X mission manager Bob Ess on Friday. "Afterward, when we saw the parachutes we assumed,...
  • News Source: Christian Science Monitor | 27 days ago
    Ares 1-X rocket — it’s first stage, to be precise — was badly damaged as it hit the ocean following Wednesday’s test launch . According to a post on Florida Today ’s website, the solid-fuel motor’s casing bent on impact after two of its...
  • News Source: Press TV | 29 days ago
    Ares I-X test rocket has successfully lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a day after bad weather delayed its launch...The flight test took about six minutes from its launch until the splashdown of the rocket's booster stage. The launch...
  • News Source: NewKerala | 29 days ago
    The 327-foot tall Ares I-X test vehicle produced 2.6 million pounds of thrust to accelerate the rocket to nearly 3 g�s and Mach 4.76, just shy of hypersonic speed. It capped its easterly flight at a sub-orbital altitude of 150,000 feet after the...
  • News Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | 29 days ago
    For the first time since 1981, the rocket that took off from a Kennedy Space Center launching pad yesterday was not a space shuttle. With a clearing in a partly cloudy sky, the Ares I-X -- a prototype of the National Aeronautics and Space...
  • News Source: Orlando Sentinel Online | 29 days ago
    Looking like a giant white pencil gleaming in the midday sun, the 327-foot-tall rocket soared off Launch Pad 39B at 11:30 a.m., riding a huge column of flame and almost 3 million pounds of thrust. Two minutes later and 24 miles high, the first stage...
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  • Blog Source: www.nasawatch.com
    "NASA has two days - Tuesday and Wednesday - to launch the Ares I-X test rocket or it could be delayed until December or perhaps next year, said test Launch Director Jeff Spalding this afternoon. Including the Ares I-X test, ...
  • Blog Source: www.paklinks.com
    A rocket designed to replace the aging space shuttle is set for its first test-flight, despite questions over the future of the programme.If there are clear skies, the 100m-long Ares I-X will blast off from Nasa's Kennedy Space Center ...
  • Blog Source: tjantunen.com
    Although the panel supported the Ares I-X test flight, it questioned the need to develop the Ares I rocket, part of the Constellation programme commissioned by the previous administration and intended to return the US to the Moon by ...
  • Blog Source: rochesterhomepage.net
    Tuesday, Oct 27, 2009 @08:20am EDT. view larger. It's the tallest rocket in the world and in less than 2 hours it will blast off for a test run. NASA says the space shuttle is getting old so they hope the rocket launched Tuesday will be able to take
  • Blog Source: www.arguewitheveryone.com
    The test flight comes at an uncertain time for NASA. The agency's plans to use the. Ares I rocket and Orion capsules to replace the shuttle fleet and return astronauts to the moon by 2020 are under review by President Barack Obama's ...
  • Blog Source: coolfwdmail.blogspot.com
    The experimental Ares I-X rocket is set to lift off at 8 a.m. EDT from Pad 39B here at Kennedy Space Center. NASA needs good weather in order to gather detailed data on how the $445 million booster performs during this maiden voyage. ...
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  • Posted By spike-breaker08 spike-breaker08 | about 1 month ago
    what's the rockrt for? be specific..
  • Posted By Shirley66 Shirley66 | about 1 month ago
    Hopefully without the disadvantages.
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