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Ares 1-X Test Rocket Launch Scrubbed for Today

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 ...
    Source: Reuters
  • 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

Maybe if the captain of that cargo ship had listened and respected orders not to enter the hazard zone east of the launch pad, our super rocket might have lifted off earlier this morning. Hopefully we'll have a fantastic day tomorrow for a launch.

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  • News Source: Fox News | 28 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 | 28 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 | about 1 month 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 | about 1 month 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 | about 1 month 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 | about 1 month 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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    NASA officials say the Ares I X test rocket is ready for launch Tuesday morning but weather could scrub the test flight until Wednesday.NASA is targeting Oct. Ares I rocket is a two stage booster designed to launch Space A new technical ...
  • Blog Source: www.devicemag.com
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  • Blog Source: www.popsci.com
    NASA's first test of the Ares I-X rocket is on hold, waiting for stormy Cape Canaveral weather to pass. The four-minute countdown is expected to resume at 10:54 EST. You can follow along live on NASA TV. If the launch is not cleared by 12 noon EST,
  • Blog Source: www.digitaljournal.com
    The preliminary report recommended scrapping the Ares rocket, although the committee has not ruled out human space flight. The Augustine Committee (also known as the Review of US Human Space Flight Plans Committee) defined the scope of ...
  • Blog Source: aubreyj818.blogspot.com
    As nightfall comes to Launch Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Oct. 23rd... xenon lights reveal the Ares I-X rocket awaiting the approaching liftoff of its flight test. ... The launch team reports no issues with the 327 -foot
  • Blog Source: surchur.com
    [space] RT @NASA: Ares I-X new targeted launch time is 10:54 EDT. Must launch by noon or scrub. Winds looking bad. Posted in UncategorizedDate: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:33:00 CDT From: PaulW: The Content Guy; As NASA tests new rocket, ...
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  • Posted By spike-breaker08 spike-breaker08 | about 1 month ago
    what the heck is the rocket for?
  • Posted By Shirley66 Shirley66 | about 1 month ago
    Delayed as it may be...but the sky is inviting. Good for the next launching, right?
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