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NASA studies Ares rocket alternatives
Cape Canaveral :: FL :: USA | 10 days ago
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Constellation Program rockets are behind schedule and over budget, teams of agency engineers are hastily reviewing alternative designs for a new heavy-lift rocket capable of exploring the solar system affordably and relatively quickly. Among the options...
Tags: NASA, KSC, test flights, Charlie Bolden, Ares I. Hanley, fuel tanks, Jeff Hanley, lift rocket, Cape Canaveral
Ares 1-X Booster Badly Bent
NASA reported that one of the three parachutes failed to open causing the Arex 1-X booster rocket to plummet back into the sea much faster than expected. The impact created a large dent in the side of the rocket. Repairs will be costly. Maybe this rocket...
Tags: NASA, Ares 1-X, Kenedy Space Center, KSC, Space, Rocket
Ares 1-X ... 3, 2, 1, BLAST OFF! Wow!
Finally! At 11:30 am EDT today, the Ares 1-X lifted off the old shuttle launch pad and flew 28 miles up and about 180 miles downrange in about 6 minutes, the solid rocket booster burning for about 2 minutes ... Why? Because no one knew for sure how this...
Tags: NASA, Kenedy Space Center, KSC, Ares, 1-X
NASA: Up to 6,400 job losses at KSC when shuttle retires
Miami :: FL :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Tuesday estimates that as many as 6,400 contractors could lose their jobs at KSC by 2011 right after the space shuttle is retired...September 2010 to make way for the next generation of space exploration vehicles to take astronauts back to the moon
Tags: space shuttle, KSC, lose job, moon, NASA, shuttle program
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