The point isn't necessarily how advanced the rocket is. It is all about getting payload to space cheaply. Aries One is your basic Ford truck to get astronauts and payload to low Earth orbit. We don't need a highly advanced formula one car that costs a billion dollars a pop to do that mission. The Orion Crew module and Altair lander are the "advanced" part of the program. They may look similar to Apollo, but inside they are as different from each other as an eight track is from an iPod.
For the record, a NASA study has shown that this project will cost each American taxpayer roughly 45¢ a year. I personally believe that that's a small price to pay for advancements into space. As a country, we can't expect to be taken seriously if we don't work to go beyond our limits and reach out to unexplored areas and territories.
Exactly. NASA only costs a measly $17 billion/year (it's more expensive to run the public school system of several counties of California) and Project Constellation would only require raising NASA's budget to $22-26 billion/year. The Constellation Program will create up to 200,000 jobs total. Possibly more than the Stimulus has created and for a tiny fraction of the cost.
The War in Iraq alone costs over $3 Trillion and escalating the War in Afghanistan would cost over $1.5 Trillion.
That alone as a yearly Budget for NASA should be peanuts. I dont see any reason for not funding NASA beyond $30 Billion a year and it would be a crime if it wasnt!
If you can find money to kill people you should be able to find money to explore the universe.
If i were the president of the united states i would doubble or tripple the budget for science in general and get the hell out of Iraq and afganistan!
Ares 1-X uses solid rocket fuel. There is nothing advanced about it. A hollow medal shell with solid rocket fuel inside. Its the same technology used by your basic Estes model rocket engine. Its just very expensive (at its size) and very dangerous. After development costs Ares 1 will end up costing more than the Shuttle.
Another future expensive failure. Yay. Me (in the voice of the boy from "Making Fiends"): "My tax dollars!"
I wonder how many astronauts this project will kill. Someone please have the brains and guts to murder this project, gut NASA, rebuild it, and focus on buying systems from the private manufacturers. PLEASE!
Since the Ares-1 SRB-5 is a solid propellent motor there is no way to shut it down. Wernher Von Braun was AGAINST the solid boosters used for manned launches.
The size and cost of this rocket compared to what it actually does is INSANE. Ares1 is a gigantic rocket that carries a ridiculously small capsule that has been downgraded to only carry 5 people. Technologically speaking, the Ares 1 is like building a new 8-track tape player. Especially compared to rockets we used in the early 60's which are like Blue Ray players in comparison. Frankly I am embarrassed as an American.
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Piss off you leftard douche bag.
The nasa of today is a mere shadow of its glorious past. nasa got to the moon when it was run by white men, now its run by women and affirmative action employees and they can't even think of a decent replacement for the shuttle.
God help the space program now that you have Obama for president! Hed probably like to scrap nasa and spend its budget on fried chicken for his homies.
The decline of nasa mirrors the decline of America.
WTF are you talking about? WTF do nonwhite employees have to do with NASA not going back to the moon since 1972? I'm pretty sure it has do with the fact that Nixon (a white man) cut NASA's funding and the fact that Congress and presidents have been cutting their funding even more since then.
There's no such thing as Affirmative Action for NASA. All astronauts of all races are the top of their fields and classes. Piss off retard.
NASA is a government agency, not a private company. As an agency it's budget is set by Congress and approved by the President. HOWEVER, NASA spends almost all of their budget paying private companies to design, build, and test all rocket components. And the payload is almost always completely built by private companies.
NASA doesn't have "Black Projects", that's the job of the CIA and they use Vandenberg AFB to launch from.
Bx84 - The purpose is to go where no man has gone before. lol, Actually, it's a recruiting tool to attract the most gifted minds in the World to come, immigrate and live in the United States.
Assuming we don't destroy ourselves in the near term, research like this is the only way the human race can survive the inevitable death of the sun or catastrophic collision on earth by scattering throughout the universe. We're financing the very future of known life
The real tragedy is that we put less money into NASA and the survival of humanity than we do into killing Muslims, losing a drug "war", subsidizing corporations, cutting taxes, financing campaigns....
if we find a way to live in mars tht will be so cool! imagine going to universal by ship! so i am with you we should spread throughout our galaxy or maybe just near our nebula
piece of shit! Hate to be in that when it seperates and you start flying backwards at mock 2.5...Real nice NASA...it;s 40 years later yet you have managed to sell the USA government a 4 billion dollar scam to bring back the Apollo rocket with a new paint job. This is the Advancements NASA offers US TAX payers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rip off!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The natural solution to the issue is to place all the starving, African, children that could have been fed by the money...into the rocket itself. Then the problem eliminates itself. It's difficult to starve when you are becoming part of one of histories finest moments.
It would be much if their parents could go to school and become employees of Project Constellation. Job creation, ending poverty for those individuals and getting the project done simultaneously.
Project Constellation will create anywhere between 50,000-200,000 jobs, similar to what Project Apollo did. If Pres. Obama is smart he won't cut funding for this. This is a great opportunity to have low-cost domestic job creation and fund something that aims to create alternative energy.
Do you enjoy your cell phones and satellite phones? Hybrid technology? Fuel cell technology? Hospital scanners and hospital plastics? GPS? OnStar? Wind and solar power technology? Increased fuel efficiency in cars? Your iPod? The computer you just typed that post on? Thank NASA for all of that.
Project Constellation is meant to find alternative energy sources on the Moon and Mars. That's pretty important. It will also create tens of thousands of domestic American jobs and add to the economy.
Lol, Well, NASA is developing new techniques to spin the upper stages of rockets after they burn out in order to create drag on them which causes them to deorbit much faster.
Most of the garbage up there is from rockets and satellites from the late 70s to the present. All of the stuff from the 50s and 60s to mid 70s has fallen down by now and burned up. Usually the stuff can't stay up for more than 20 years or so.
I'm not sure how long it will take to develop. All they really need is to put special vernier engines on upper stages that give a short burn and put them into a tumble. But NASA's budget is extremely limited.
Yes. They don't get nearly as much money as much of the public perceives. Their annual budget is $17 billion. That's tiny compared to what we spend on other things. The Iraq War alone will cost us $3 Trillion, and we spend trillions a year giving out welfare checks to major corporations.
$17 billion/year is only like the size of the budget of the education system of South Dakota.
en (dot) wikipedia (dot) org / wiki / NASA _ Budget
You're right that ESA's budget seems even more stunted than NASA's. Unfortunately a lot of European countries are reluctant to fund these things because they're too caught up in short term interests. Space exploration is extremely important to science and energy but most of the pay off is not immediate.
Lol, it's alright. NASA had gotten lazy too before Project Constellation. We had been relying largely on the Russians to ferry American astronauts and equipment into space whenever the Space Shuttle was in the repair shop. The US announcing the retirement of the Shuttle next year has kind of forced everyone to finally develop their own manned programs.
I think the ATV evolution plan sound cool:
en (dot) wikipedia (dot) org / wiki / Automated _ Transfer _ Vehicle # ATV _ Evolution _ projects
It is indeed. Nixon cut funding for the Apollo Program to free up more money to funnel into the dumb Vietnam War. Bush announced Project Constellation but then stupidly only gave it 40% of the necessary funding so he could funnel money into the Iraq War. The Iraq War is winding down under Obama but now he's trying to increase the war in Afghanistan. Thankfully more of the American public is against both wars than for. I hope he'll end that dumb war so he won't cut more NASA budget.
The Soviets listened in on the Apollo missions and tracked them with their satellites. If it was fake they would have said something. We even have real moon rocks from the moon in museums.
The problems now are:
1) NASA doesn't have as much funding now as it did back then.
2) We're testing an entirely new spacecraft and rocket to get to the moon. The rocket that could get us there, the Saturn V, is obsolete. So is the Apollo spacecraft.
Personally I think it will work. The Constellation Program works on a similar principle as the Apollo Program and it uses more advanced hardware and software than the Space Shuttle.
Obama has already cut enough funding from NASA and Project Constellation to throw the Lunar base and manned Mars mission out of the window. As of August, that is the official word.
I imagine all of that money went to the multi-billion dollar defense bill he recently signed.
The Augustine Commission report said with the current amount of funding a realistic launch date for the Orion would be 2017, not never. It just confirmed what we already knew.
BTW, it was Bush who only allocated 40% of the funding needed for Project Constellation. Bush cut funding too for the Iraq War, not just Obama. Now that the Iraq War is supposedly winding down and public opinion is turning against the War in Afghanistan hopefully we can dedicate more funding to this program.
uhm i don't know whats more important, the well being of the American people, like more funding to support those who are unemployed, and uninsured, and the economy, or a stupid moon base?
of course I understand the danger of Islam, I have read history and I know as an American that we (united states) through history we have screw with the middle east affairs so much, that we really have pissed them off and now they want pay back., that is something you have to live with. But dont worry, we have our marines in Afganistan that they are going to kill in one day more civilians including children than the 12 soldiers killed by that lunatic in forthood
i swear you are a muslim terrorist, cause if you are an american you wont say that. cause the guy who killed 12 was an american who lived here, and the army paid for his education and at the end, the hate inside him makes him turn aganist his own country and kill everyone around him, and u call that pay back, fuck that and fuck you muslim bitch
that's super ignorant, all this for a pointless ass race.with who, Russians? like this isn't the cold war we shouldn't shoot rockets into space, because we want to show the world "yay we got to space first" like who gives a shit, i personally think there's much more important shit to take care of. i love astronomy, but i like to think about the things in life that can benefit the well being of people (on earth). and g0pher, i agree with you 100%, but it wouldn't help the economy completely.
1. NASA is a government agency but everything from the design to delivery of space craft is done by companies (not the government) in a competitive bidding process.
2. There IS a space race and it hasn't been won yet. Just a air superiority wins wars today, space based weapons will win the wars in the future.
3. It's not about the rockets, it's the owner of the payload that pays for launch vehicle, not the American Tax Payer.
So your saying that space is only important for wars? Wow even more ignorant, most people when they think space they think of new ways to be able to travel far distances, and find new ways of living in new areas, but you believe that space should used for "air superiority" in order to fight wars, and blow another country up. Than obviously you don't get it.
On the other hand the US starting Project Constellation seems to have lit a bit of a fire under the ESA's ass. Now they have their own plans in the works for a manned space program called "CSTS/ACTS". They seem to want to turn the ATV spacecraft into a manned craft.
@ phoo.......(???) space travel for solving environmental problems????lolz.....do u know how Americans are polluting our environment...just watch the video again...........bloody shits!!!!!!
You are a idiot! Go back to living in your cave! We need space travel now more then at anytime to help solve the environmental problems of the world. Its essential! Stopping Space travel is like quitting breathing to save O2 on the earth!
The 1st stage is a solid rocket motor, burning aluminum with ammonium perchlorate. I don't think this reaction creates greenhouse gases. There is some carbon in the binding agent, but there's only about 60 tons of it. One single SUV would produce about the same amount of CO2 over the course of its life.
Not the right comparison, although you are generally correct. America regards it as ok for itself to produce, test and use global weapons, but not other countries. It's called a double standard.
First off I wan't talking to you and secondly Aries is not a ballistic missile. Thirdly, as the last remaining superpower, we helped to write the non-proliferation treaties along with SALT-I and SALT-II arms treaties. Your public disinformation and bullshit rhetoric pisses people like me off. We have produced NO nuclear weapons since the end of the cold war, we have cut our stock of nuclear weps by over 50%. Please elaborate on the 'Double Standard' if you would be so kind!!!!!!
Is this one manned? Or are they flying it by remote?
Also, as for the private corporations vs government programs, really... it's all the same thing. Would you rather have "greedy corporations" leading the way into space, or have it be "corrupt government organizations"?
Personally I trust NASA because they have more experience in the field. But, that being said, I do also encourage private corporations to try and make rockets.
I agree with your post 100%. What a lot of people don't seem to realize is that so few private companies are into space exploration right now because there is little short-run incentive for it. That's why state enterprises such as NASA exist to take on things like this that have long-run value to mankind but little short-run profitability to interest companies (not to mention to set a standard for them).
This test was unmanned, it won't be manned until 2015-2017 (depending on funding).
For the same price, I would rather send 140 astronauts to LEO in Falcon9 rather than only 5 astronauts in Ares 1. Just because Ares 1 "Looks cool" is not justification for its cost and added danger. We should use Falcon9 for a cheap safe ride to space and spend money on real achievements like working on high speed space travel using advanced plasma/ion drive systems.
The Falcon 9 is nice but it is not powerful enough to send a manned capsule + a manned lunar lander into escape velocity speeds. Neither is the Falcon 9 Heavy. The SpaceX Dragon doesn't have powerful enough engines to perform a course correction burn for itself and a manned lunar lander, or for a Trans-Earth Injection. The Dragon is engineered specifically for LEO flight alone.
Very true. Personally I think SpaceX will be fine for LEO missions and LEO cargo to the ISS and eventually commercial flights but I can't see any other systems other than the Ares rocket family or the DIRECT Jupiter rocket family toting people to the moon. Even the Falcon 9 Heavy can only tote about 1/4 of what the Saturn V could put up.
The problem with DIRECT is that it isn't flexible for LEO missions and it probably won't be much safer or cheaper than Ares.
NASA's funding is pretty minuscule. Only $17 billion/year, that's only about as much as the funding for the school system for several counties in California for a year. This entire project will only cost a total of $200 billion over more than 10 years and will create at least 50,000 jobs. That's more than the Bush and Obama's bailouts did and more than stimulus did, and for much less money.
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New rocket design, but still the same old 1960's concept. It's absolutely criminal that in a world where 30,000 children a day die from starvation or preventable disease that any government would continue spending billions of dollars on the pursuit of going somewhere that nobody will ever want to live. If people wanted to live in inhospitable places they would be flocking to death valley, volcanoes and undersea homes.
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I couldnt agree with you more Geoff! Kids worldwide are starving, this country is bankrupt, people in the greatest nation are still living in the streets, and we are spending billions on a flipping rocket test. To say the least our priorities are a little hosed!
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I think It's absolutely criminal that in a world where we could be building rockets and going to mars we continue to waste money feeding little black turds in Africa.
I feel sorry for people like you. Hopefully one day you'll feel better about yourself and your upbringing to the point where you become a nice person.
Would you give a damn if the "turds" in Africa were white? I am pretty sure you would scrap this whole space program for it. Just the way america went to WW2 to save white people. Of course its not America's obligation to help the poor. America wouldn't spend money on africa if it wasn't beneficial. There are a lot of resources in Africa America can get by getting involved. Otherwise, obama wouldn't even care for africa.
O shit Daze, you're australian and you are saying america's space program would be better if it didn't help blacks in africa. Wait, youre country doesnt even have a space program so just worry about your own country.
Whilst I object to the way you phrased that, I do sometimes think that sending aid to Africa is like pouring money into a bottomless pit. Clearly the size of the African population exceeds the amount of available resources there. Perhaps some sort of birth control measures would be a better solution, or at least if the pope allowed them the use of condoms. Also I don't consider it our duty to rid the world of famine. It's a noble, but ultimately hopeless cause.
Africa's population isn't really the problem, it's the fact that most of Africa's vast potential is untapped. Most of the physical capital in their countries is owned by foreigners and the physical capital to worker ratio is much lower. Not to mention a lot of their population is very undereducated. If they manage to get control of their own resources, educate their population and start building more businesses they'll need less and less foreign aid as their economies grow.
That's correct, and that requires funding. I'm not saying don't go into space. I'm saying, lets get the human race living at an acceptable quality of life first, then move forward from there.
Money in aid to African nations is not money down a hole. It keeps kids alive, but little more. But there are lots of projects that could make a huge difference with funding. Solar powered water pumps for example. That means food, which means healthier people and the basis for a sustainable economy.
The purpose of my comment is that Africa is unsalvagable! Studies conducted in a non-public forum have again and again come to the conclusion that no matter how much money and aid is dumped into the dark continent, nothing will save its vastly diseased population. AIDS is already in an "end run" scenario as a disease goes, and there is nothing to stop its exponential spread through the greater black, non-muslim populations. Add to that the inherent political instability !!!!!!!
What are you talking about? Africa has several of the world's fastest industrializing and fastest growing economies right now. Angola has an annual economic growth rate of 17% right now (the US has averaged 2-3.5% for the past 20 years). South Africa has a rapidly expanding middle class. Africa is the continent being least affected overall by the current global recession.
You so just sidestepped that I think that you might be a famous world dancer. Africa,we will speak of the continent, has only one real bright spot which is South Africa. Angola may be growing at an annual rate of 20%, but then again 20% of nothing is nothing. Northern Africa, almost no economic means of support, almost no developed agriculture, inadequate mineral extraction programs. A86, you are still so young that you do not remember countries like Rhodesia, they were ruined.
Africa is least effected by the global economic recession because they have never played a part in the world economy other than to be a drain on rescources. I lived in Rhodesia for about 7 months, right about the time it became Zimbabwe, what a cluster fuck! Lets let a bunch of uneducated thugs take over a country because its run predominately by whites. The same whites that made the country what it was. Africa is a shit hole and so it will remain until there is nothing left of it!
20% of nothing? The annual GDP of the continent (Africa) is over $2 Trillion. That's hardly nothing.
"countries like Rhodesia"
Yes, where 95% of the population was poor and the only people who had anything were the wealthy white minority after they stole the land from the indigenous population and used them as cheap labor to build the country.
Zimbabwe's economy was fine in the 80s and early 90s until they ran into problems getting into debt and printing money.
NASA only receives $17 billion/year. That's about the same amount of charity the US gives each year to Africa. The Iraq War alone costs more in a couple of weeks than NASA costs in an entire year.
If you want to free up more money to help out poor and dying people stop these wars and corporate welfare. That will free up at least $4 Trillion right there. The goal of Project Constellation is to glean materials for alternative energy from the Moon and Mars. That's very important. Oil is drying up.
Is it me or does the spacecraft's attitude after separation must remain the same? It looked like something went wrong at this point... but i know nothing of this test.
The second stage was and engineering dummy with no engines, fuel, or electronics, other than the flight data computers. THe purpose of the test was to check actual flight dynamics against projected engineering dynamics, the test was a resounding success!
Methane is also a greenhouse gas. It's also the reason to fear the permafrost melting in the high north. Permafrost melts = methane gas relase from the bogs = more warming
molecule-for-molecule basis methane is about eight times stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, but it is present in much smaller concentrations so that its total contribution is smaller.
People have talked about how the SRBs are not dependable and even dangerous because of what happened to the Challenger. However, that was caused by the O-ring failing due to cold weather conditions that we never launched under again. Not to mention the fact that the launch would have suceeded had the emissions from the base of the rocket not contacted the much less stable liquid rocket fuel causing the explosion. NASA redesigned the O-rings and flight procedures so it will never happen again.
DO NOT TAKE THE SWINE FLU VACCINE. Search FALL OF THE REPUBLIC on youtube. The globalist agenda is set but we have to stop the New World Order. As far as left or right is concerned, there is no right or left only right or wrong. 9/11 was an inside job. Wake up and realize the economic collapse was planned. This isn't conspiracy theory, its a matter of control in the hands of a few wealthy people. Know the truth, infowars . com
I'm just an amature space geek but I like this rocket design along with the bigger Ares-2 because of the smart simplicity and use of the avialable SRBs. I feel good about it and I think the whole system will work safley for our astronaunts and the program will proceed sucessfully.
I'm so happy this project got off the ground(literally). I've followed it since I was 12 and am now 17. My dad grew up during the Apollo project and I grew up watching his "From the Earth to the Moon" videos and am so excited that my children will get a similar if not better experience. If anyone reading this has any power over the future of this project, please acknowledge me. Don't just look at the cost.
PS: Global Warming is caused by man and any attempt to deny that is ignorance of fact.
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locomoco444 2 years ago 4
The point isn't necessarily how advanced the rocket is. It is all about getting payload to space cheaply. Aries One is your basic Ford truck to get astronauts and payload to low Earth orbit. We don't need a highly advanced formula one car that costs a billion dollars a pop to do that mission. The Orion Crew module and Altair lander are the "advanced" part of the program. They may look similar to Apollo, but inside they are as different from each other as an eight track is from an iPod.
lucidcafe 2 years ago 5
For the record, a NASA study has shown that this project will cost each American taxpayer roughly 45¢ a year. I personally believe that that's a small price to pay for advancements into space. As a country, we can't expect to be taken seriously if we don't work to go beyond our limits and reach out to unexplored areas and territories.
deashute 2 years ago 6
Exactly. NASA only costs a measly $17 billion/year (it's more expensive to run the public school system of several counties of California) and Project Constellation would only require raising NASA's budget to $22-26 billion/year. The Constellation Program will create up to 200,000 jobs total. Possibly more than the Stimulus has created and for a tiny fraction of the cost.
The War in Iraq alone costs over $3 Trillion and escalating the War in Afghanistan would cost over $1.5 Trillion.
A86 2 years ago 2
The War in Iraq costs $30 Billion a month,
That alone as a yearly Budget for NASA should be peanuts. I dont see any reason for not funding NASA beyond $30 Billion a year and it would be a crime if it wasnt!
If you can find money to kill people you should be able to find money to explore the universe.
woodman19 2 years ago 3
If i were the president of the united states i would doubble or tripple the budget for science in general and get the hell out of Iraq and afganistan!
Salladsdressing 2 years ago 3
"...to boldly go where no man has gone before."
fireinthesky00 2 years ago
Using this way to get to space seems like a really primitive and out-dated way to get there if you think about it.
Not that i could do any better but I feel we should be able to do better as a species.
yakomuto 2 years ago
Yes! Back to the future II is set in 2015. I want a hoverboard and a flying car!
I agree that rockets aren't a perfect solution though. But we simply need Ares until we get a working alternative solution.
rubenpeeters 2 years ago 2
Ares 1-X uses solid rocket fuel. There is nothing advanced about it. A hollow medal shell with solid rocket fuel inside. Its the same technology used by your basic Estes model rocket engine. Its just very expensive (at its size) and very dangerous. After development costs Ares 1 will end up costing more than the Shuttle.
ti994apc 2 years ago
Another future expensive failure. Yay. Me (in the voice of the boy from "Making Fiends"): "My tax dollars!"
I wonder how many astronauts this project will kill. Someone please have the brains and guts to murder this project, gut NASA, rebuild it, and focus on buying systems from the private manufacturers. PLEASE!
somercet1 2 years ago
That was a perfectly executed launch of the amazing Ares 1-X rocket congratulations gentlemen
moonman9001 2 years ago 4
NASA was/is clownish agency, this record is very good evidence for their lunar program
SarK0Y 2 years ago
Since the Ares-1 SRB-5 is a solid propellent motor there is no way to shut it down. Wernher Von Braun was AGAINST the solid boosters used for manned launches.
ti994apc 2 years ago
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ti994apc 2 years ago
The size and cost of this rocket compared to what it actually does is INSANE. Ares1 is a gigantic rocket that carries a ridiculously small capsule that has been downgraded to only carry 5 people. Technologically speaking, the Ares 1 is like building a new 8-track tape player. Especially compared to rockets we used in the early 60's which are like Blue Ray players in comparison. Frankly I am embarrassed as an American.
ti994apc 2 years ago
This rocket is far less costly than the Shuttle or Apollo and it does much more than either of them.
"Technologically speaking, the Ares 1 is like building a new 8-track tape player"
The Ares I is technologically more advanced than the Shuttle or the Saturn V. Please list some vehicles that are supposedly more advanced.
A86 2 years ago 4
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Piss off you leftard douche bag.
The nasa of today is a mere shadow of its glorious past. nasa got to the moon when it was run by white men, now its run by women and affirmative action employees and they can't even think of a decent replacement for the shuttle.
God help the space program now that you have Obama for president! Hed probably like to scrap nasa and spend its budget on fried chicken for his homies.
The decline of nasa mirrors the decline of America.
71Daze 2 years ago
WTF are you talking about? WTF do nonwhite employees have to do with NASA not going back to the moon since 1972? I'm pretty sure it has do with the fact that Nixon (a white man) cut NASA's funding and the fact that Congress and presidents have been cutting their funding even more since then.
There's no such thing as Affirmative Action for NASA. All astronauts of all races are the top of their fields and classes. Piss off retard.
A86 2 years ago 2
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ti994apc 2 years ago
For my laymans eye the seperation don't looks good.
Thorralf83 2 years ago
NASA is a government agency, not a private company. As an agency it's budget is set by Congress and approved by the President. HOWEVER, NASA spends almost all of their budget paying private companies to design, build, and test all rocket components. And the payload is almost always completely built by private companies.
NASA doesn't have "Black Projects", that's the job of the CIA and they use Vandenberg AFB to launch from.
wiredcoder 2 years ago
Congratulations to NASA for a job well done!!!
BetyarPali 2 years ago 5
whats the purpose of all of this?
BxStud84 2 years ago
Bx84 - The purpose is to go where no man has gone before. lol, Actually, it's a recruiting tool to attract the most gifted minds in the World to come, immigrate and live in the United States.
emailbenjie 2 years ago
Assuming we don't destroy ourselves in the near term, research like this is the only way the human race can survive the inevitable death of the sun or catastrophic collision on earth by scattering throughout the universe. We're financing the very future of known life
The real tragedy is that we put less money into NASA and the survival of humanity than we do into killing Muslims, losing a drug "war", subsidizing corporations, cutting taxes, financing campaigns....
Priorities, anyone?
manonthemount 2 years ago 8
if we find a way to live in mars tht will be so cool! imagine going to universal by ship! so i am with you we should spread throughout our galaxy or maybe just near our nebula
Falador321 2 years ago
How much did my great grandchildren pay for that launch.....
winterover79 2 years ago
i dont think they did, its probibly borrowed money... more likely that your greatgrand children will pay for it
hypertreeko 2 years ago
@winterover79 450 million
SC1337 2 years ago
I dont care. The advancement of technology is everything to me, to you to everyone.
KhamusSolo 2 years ago 2
i cant believe people are saying we never landed on the moon. those sacesuits were 12 million dollars each. and over ten years preparation.
mrfourtysevenman 2 years ago 5
piece of shit! Hate to be in that when it seperates and you start flying backwards at mock 2.5...Real nice NASA...it;s 40 years later yet you have managed to sell the USA government a 4 billion dollar scam to bring back the Apollo rocket with a new paint job. This is the Advancements NASA offers US TAX payers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rip off!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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SlightlyStoopid100 2 years ago
L2 Launch in space nubs.
fretalian 2 years ago
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Airaku 2 years ago
I have no idea why people made such unsuitable comments on such a great launch.
Waste of my time, although watching the launch was very impressive.
Fastbikkel 2 years ago
The natural solution to the issue is to place all the starving, African, children that could have been fed by the money...into the rocket itself. Then the problem eliminates itself. It's difficult to starve when you are becoming part of one of histories finest moments.
ReactorWorker 2 years ago
WTF?
It would be much if their parents could go to school and become employees of Project Constellation. Job creation, ending poverty for those individuals and getting the project done simultaneously.
Project Constellation will create anywhere between 50,000-200,000 jobs, similar to what Project Apollo did. If Pres. Obama is smart he won't cut funding for this. This is a great opportunity to have low-cost domestic job creation and fund something that aims to create alternative energy.
A86 2 years ago
going in to space is useless.
i think the first thing we'll have to do is solving our own problems, and then we can go into space.
it costs billions a year and the earth isn't getting better either
artiejump 2 years ago
Do you enjoy your cell phones and satellite phones? Hybrid technology? Fuel cell technology? Hospital scanners and hospital plastics? GPS? OnStar? Wind and solar power technology? Increased fuel efficiency in cars? Your iPod? The computer you just typed that post on? Thank NASA for all of that.
Project Constellation is meant to find alternative energy sources on the Moon and Mars. That's pretty important. It will also create tens of thousands of domestic American jobs and add to the economy.
A86 2 years ago
ok. ok you convinced me :-)
but, we need to do something about space garbage.
dutchmen always complain xD
artiejump 2 years ago
Lol, Well, NASA is developing new techniques to spin the upper stages of rockets after they burn out in order to create drag on them which causes them to deorbit much faster.
A86 2 years ago
is developing, so....
it wil take a few ( 5?10?) years to fully integrate into new rockets.
which means that we still have the garbage of the last 40 years.
which is a lot.
( artiejump is thinking about the scene where a rocket leaves the planet through a shield of space garbage xD )
artiejump 2 years ago
Most of the garbage up there is from rockets and satellites from the late 70s to the present. All of the stuff from the 50s and 60s to mid 70s has fallen down by now and burned up. Usually the stuff can't stay up for more than 20 years or so.
I'm not sure how long it will take to develop. All they really need is to put special vernier engines on upper stages that give a short burn and put them into a tumble. But NASA's budget is extremely limited.
A86 2 years ago
nasa's budget EXTREMELY limited?
come on man
artiejump 2 years ago
Yes. They don't get nearly as much money as much of the public perceives. Their annual budget is $17 billion. That's tiny compared to what we spend on other things. The Iraq War alone will cost us $3 Trillion, and we spend trillions a year giving out welfare checks to major corporations.
$17 billion/year is only like the size of the budget of the education system of South Dakota.
A86 2 years ago
where did you get the information???
anyway, if your numbers are correct you are correct.
but, in europe we still have ESA :D
not that it makes sense, compared to NASA its nothing
artiejump 2 years ago
en (dot) wikipedia (dot) org / wiki / NASA _ Budget
You're right that ESA's budget seems even more stunted than NASA's. Unfortunately a lot of European countries are reluctant to fund these things because they're too caught up in short term interests. Space exploration is extremely important to science and energy but most of the pay off is not immediate.
A86 2 years ago
lol,
yeah we in holland think like:
ohhh the americans will explore it for us.
bit lazy i know.
but we have the LHC :O
artiejump 2 years ago
Lol, it's alright. NASA had gotten lazy too before Project Constellation. We had been relying largely on the Russians to ferry American astronauts and equipment into space whenever the Space Shuttle was in the repair shop. The US announcing the retirement of the Shuttle next year has kind of forced everyone to finally develop their own manned programs.
I think the ATV evolution plan sound cool:
en (dot) wikipedia (dot) org / wiki / Automated _ Transfer _ Vehicle # ATV _ Evolution _ projects
A86 2 years ago
btw
dont you think its crazy NASA didn´t return to the moon?
artiejump 2 years ago
It is indeed. Nixon cut funding for the Apollo Program to free up more money to funnel into the dumb Vietnam War. Bush announced Project Constellation but then stupidly only gave it 40% of the necessary funding so he could funnel money into the Iraq War. The Iraq War is winding down under Obama but now he's trying to increase the war in Afghanistan. Thankfully more of the American public is against both wars than for. I hope he'll end that dumb war so he won't cut more NASA budget.
A86 2 years ago 3
oh, never heard the solution.
i think its fake.
it doesn't make sense because if they can go the moon, why not?
it's 40 years ago, and nobody came to the idea of:
oh hey let's go back?
i don't even think the radio signals were that great to send the stream to the earth.
artiejump 2 years ago
The Soviets listened in on the Apollo missions and tracked them with their satellites. If it was fake they would have said something. We even have real moon rocks from the moon in museums.
The problems now are:
1) NASA doesn't have as much funding now as it did back then.
2) We're testing an entirely new spacecraft and rocket to get to the moon. The rocket that could get us there, the Saturn V, is obsolete. So is the Apollo spacecraft.
A86 2 years ago 2
hmm, ok.
well, i think we'll have to wait and see huh?
conversation closed? :-)
artiejump 2 years ago
I guess. :-)
Personally I think it will work. The Constellation Program works on a similar principle as the Apollo Program and it uses more advanced hardware and software than the Space Shuttle.
A86 2 years ago
Obama has already cut enough funding from NASA and Project Constellation to throw the Lunar base and manned Mars mission out of the window. As of August, that is the official word.
I imagine all of that money went to the multi-billion dollar defense bill he recently signed.
18CaStRaDoMiS89 2 years ago
The Augustine Commission report said with the current amount of funding a realistic launch date for the Orion would be 2017, not never. It just confirmed what we already knew.
BTW, it was Bush who only allocated 40% of the funding needed for Project Constellation. Bush cut funding too for the Iraq War, not just Obama. Now that the Iraq War is supposedly winding down and public opinion is turning against the War in Afghanistan hopefully we can dedicate more funding to this program.
A86 2 years ago
uhm i don't know whats more important, the well being of the American people, like more funding to support those who are unemployed, and uninsured, and the economy, or a stupid moon base?
qrion13 2 years ago
Nasa provides jobs for the unemployed and helps the economy.
g0pher 2 years ago 4
hopefully they do not hire muslims in the agency, or it will be a national disaster, like forthood
egyptahly 2 years ago
egyptahly you are an imbecil
ojaldin 2 years ago 2
and you are an idot if you do not understand the danger of islam, may be when they attack one of ur family members then you will get it you imbecil
egyptahly 2 years ago
of course I understand the danger of Islam, I have read history and I know as an American that we (united states) through history we have screw with the middle east affairs so much, that we really have pissed them off and now they want pay back., that is something you have to live with. But dont worry, we have our marines in Afganistan that they are going to kill in one day more civilians including children than the 12 soldiers killed by that lunatic in forthood
ojaldin 2 years ago
And by the way this is a science video go to make those comments in the Rush Limbaugh or Bill Oreilly blogs, they will be appreciated there.
ojaldin 2 years ago
i swear you are a muslim terrorist, cause if you are an american you wont say that. cause the guy who killed 12 was an american who lived here, and the army paid for his education and at the end, the hate inside him makes him turn aganist his own country and kill everyone around him, and u call that pay back, fuck that and fuck you muslim bitch
egyptahly 2 years ago
Qrion13: It's not about the "stupid moon base"... it's about developing the technology to keep us on top of the space race....
wiredcoder 2 years ago 2
that's super ignorant, all this for a pointless ass race.with who, Russians? like this isn't the cold war we shouldn't shoot rockets into space, because we want to show the world "yay we got to space first" like who gives a shit, i personally think there's much more important shit to take care of. i love astronomy, but i like to think about the things in life that can benefit the well being of people (on earth). and g0pher, i agree with you 100%, but it wouldn't help the economy completely.
qrion13 2 years ago
Qrion13, You're still missing the point.
1. NASA is a government agency but everything from the design to delivery of space craft is done by companies (not the government) in a competitive bidding process.
2. There IS a space race and it hasn't been won yet. Just a air superiority wins wars today, space based weapons will win the wars in the future.
3. It's not about the rockets, it's the owner of the payload that pays for launch vehicle, not the American Tax Payer.
wiredcoder 2 years ago 2
So your saying that space is only important for wars? Wow even more ignorant, most people when they think space they think of new ways to be able to travel far distances, and find new ways of living in new areas, but you believe that space should used for "air superiority" in order to fight wars, and blow another country up. Than obviously you don't get it.
qrion13 2 years ago
But whatever i don't even care anymore we all have our own visions about space, and i respect yours.
qrion13 2 years ago
Moon base, dummy!
shawbaby1111 2 years ago 2
On the other hand the US starting Project Constellation seems to have lit a bit of a fire under the ESA's ass. Now they have their own plans in the works for a manned space program called "CSTS/ACTS". They seem to want to turn the ATV spacecraft into a manned craft.
A86 2 years ago
scene of wall-e btw
artiejump 2 years ago
he cant count evenly 10,9,8,7.......6,5,...4,3,2,1...BLASTOFF lol
BringEllisTheHoriZon 2 years ago
I think,its spy satelitte...
OuWiK 2 years ago
Why are they so many Swedes here!!??
Theowest 2 years ago
Swedish invasion
OuWiK 2 years ago
Varför!?
Theowest 2 years ago
Possibly because a Swedish website for news in technology, called Ny Teknik (New Technology), published a link to this video in an article.
Schwein13 2 years ago
yup
simonshusse 2 years ago
Jag läste den idag!! hahaha!! x'D
Men jag såg dock denna video igår, för att jag var subscribad till itn news
Theowest 2 years ago
did yal see the dude on the tv at nasa dancing in the back round :) lool
runescape8234 2 years ago
cool...space...lolz!!
kneenobla 2 years ago
@ phoo.......(???) space travel for solving environmental problems????lolz.....do u know how Americans are polluting our environment...just watch the video again...........bloody shits!!!!!!
rony2002bd 2 years ago
that was a reply! Read the other comments FIRST!!! idiot...
Theowest 2 years ago
You are a idiot! Go back to living in your cave! We need space travel now more then at anytime to help solve the environmental problems of the world. Its essential! Stopping Space travel is like quitting breathing to save O2 on the earth!
phoofighter64 2 years ago 5
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phoofighter64 2 years ago
where is it going?
GameCaller 2 years ago
go away homo
jeffo9111 2 years ago
The 1st stage is a solid rocket motor, burning aluminum with ammonium perchlorate. I don't think this reaction creates greenhouse gases. There is some carbon in the binding agent, but there's only about 60 tons of it. One single SUV would produce about the same amount of CO2 over the course of its life.
kkobayashi1 2 years ago 5
the feul is clean...however the process of making the feul isnt lol
Brut121 2 years ago 2
Redvexer är du helt dum i huvudet din kommunistfitta.
corear 2 years ago
Just fill that fokker with Swedish astronauts and mission success is guaranteed.
simonshusse 2 years ago 2
i am from sweden
MegaShadowCap 2 years ago
Kul för dig.
SwedishDreamer 2 years ago
He, he.. :)
ricande 2 years ago
Låter skoj.
ricande 2 years ago
Really cool!
cox1356 2 years ago
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Maybe not, buy usa had no proff on the trocket in korea ;)
Redvexer 2 years ago
Go back to bed you fucking idiot! Do you have a point??????
sakoshooter48 2 years ago
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funny that USA tests correct while they go berserk over north korea testing. 2 words for USA; fuck you.
Redvexer 2 years ago
One of the dumbest comments I've ever read.
This is a rocket to send astronauts into space. North Korea's are to nuke their neighbors. Bit of a difference, my confused friend.
bobwaters 2 years ago 7
Not the right comparison, although you are generally correct. America regards it as ok for itself to produce, test and use global weapons, but not other countries. It's called a double standard.
GeoffBlackmore 2 years ago
First off I wan't talking to you and secondly Aries is not a ballistic missile. Thirdly, as the last remaining superpower, we helped to write the non-proliferation treaties along with SALT-I and SALT-II arms treaties. Your public disinformation and bullshit rhetoric pisses people like me off. We have produced NO nuclear weapons since the end of the cold war, we have cut our stock of nuclear weps by over 50%. Please elaborate on the 'Double Standard' if you would be so kind!!!!!!
sakoshooter48 2 years ago
i watched that on fox news last wensday when i was at work
rossman1940 2 years ago
Here we come, Mars!
dh5567 2 years ago 4
Mars, here we come!
TheLastHaze 2 years ago 5
quality!
igloiz 2 years ago
wow ares gets off the pad in a hurry!
teabagginue 2 years ago 2
My friend says Russia was the first on the moon... Can you believe that!?
Theowest 2 years ago
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bobwaters 2 years ago
This is awesome, the future of spaceflight is near, especialy with nuclear powered rockets getting to mars will be np.
percyth11 2 years ago
Is this one manned? Or are they flying it by remote?
Also, as for the private corporations vs government programs, really... it's all the same thing. Would you rather have "greedy corporations" leading the way into space, or have it be "corrupt government organizations"?
Personally I trust NASA because they have more experience in the field. But, that being said, I do also encourage private corporations to try and make rockets.
Competition leads to innovation after all.
EdouardDubois 2 years ago 2
I agree with your post 100%. What a lot of people don't seem to realize is that so few private companies are into space exploration right now because there is little short-run incentive for it. That's why state enterprises such as NASA exist to take on things like this that have long-run value to mankind but little short-run profitability to interest companies (not to mention to set a standard for them).
This test was unmanned, it won't be manned until 2015-2017 (depending on funding).
A86 2 years ago
um..cut off at bad time....sweet
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alexiox55 2 years ago
For the same price, I would rather send 140 astronauts to LEO in Falcon9 rather than only 5 astronauts in Ares 1. Just because Ares 1 "Looks cool" is not justification for its cost and added danger. We should use Falcon9 for a cheap safe ride to space and spend money on real achievements like working on high speed space travel using advanced plasma/ion drive systems.
ti994apc 2 years ago
The Falcon 9 is nice but it is not powerful enough to send a manned capsule + a manned lunar lander into escape velocity speeds. Neither is the Falcon 9 Heavy. The SpaceX Dragon doesn't have powerful enough engines to perform a course correction burn for itself and a manned lunar lander, or for a Trans-Earth Injection. The Dragon is engineered specifically for LEO flight alone.
A86 2 years ago
Yea, getting into space is really hard... lol
And I'm not saying that sarcastically. We have a stupidly deep gravity well.
EdouardDubois 2 years ago
Very true. Personally I think SpaceX will be fine for LEO missions and LEO cargo to the ISS and eventually commercial flights but I can't see any other systems other than the Ares rocket family or the DIRECT Jupiter rocket family toting people to the moon. Even the Falcon 9 Heavy can only tote about 1/4 of what the Saturn V could put up.
The problem with DIRECT is that it isn't flexible for LEO missions and it probably won't be much safer or cheaper than Ares.
A86 2 years ago
Seriously.
NASA's funding is pretty minuscule. Only $17 billion/year, that's only about as much as the funding for the school system for several counties in California for a year. This entire project will only cost a total of $200 billion over more than 10 years and will create at least 50,000 jobs. That's more than the Bush and Obama's bailouts did and more than stimulus did, and for much less money.
A86 2 years ago
i watched this... waited for like... 2 days, was kinda boring i spose, maybe worth it? 2 days lost outta my holiday, thats for sure.
MaNiAcOwNeR 2 years ago
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New rocket design, but still the same old 1960's concept. It's absolutely criminal that in a world where 30,000 children a day die from starvation or preventable disease that any government would continue spending billions of dollars on the pursuit of going somewhere that nobody will ever want to live. If people wanted to live in inhospitable places they would be flocking to death valley, volcanoes and undersea homes.
GeoffBlackmore 2 years ago
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I couldnt agree with you more Geoff! Kids worldwide are starving, this country is bankrupt, people in the greatest nation are still living in the streets, and we are spending billions on a flipping rocket test. To say the least our priorities are a little hosed!
yabruf 2 years ago
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I think It's absolutely criminal that in a world where we could be building rockets and going to mars we continue to waste money feeding little black turds in Africa.
71Daze 2 years ago
I feel sorry for people like you. Hopefully one day you'll feel better about yourself and your upbringing to the point where you become a nice person.
MUSECam 2 years ago 3
Would you give a damn if the "turds" in Africa were white? I am pretty sure you would scrap this whole space program for it. Just the way america went to WW2 to save white people. Of course its not America's obligation to help the poor. America wouldn't spend money on africa if it wasn't beneficial. There are a lot of resources in Africa America can get by getting involved. Otherwise, obama wouldn't even care for africa.
HasanJamilable 2 years ago 5
O shit Daze, you're australian and you are saying america's space program would be better if it didn't help blacks in africa. Wait, youre country doesnt even have a space program so just worry about your own country.
HasanJamilable 2 years ago
Australia must have a space program, as their egos have been in orbit for decades.
GeoffBlackmore 2 years ago
Little Black Turds?!!? HERE'S A GREAT BIG FUCK YOU ASSWIPE. Take that ignorant shit somewhere else!!
bubblinbrownsugar616 2 years ago 3
Whilst I object to the way you phrased that, I do sometimes think that sending aid to Africa is like pouring money into a bottomless pit. Clearly the size of the African population exceeds the amount of available resources there. Perhaps some sort of birth control measures would be a better solution, or at least if the pope allowed them the use of condoms. Also I don't consider it our duty to rid the world of famine. It's a noble, but ultimately hopeless cause.
Jinmane 2 years ago
Africa's population isn't really the problem, it's the fact that most of Africa's vast potential is untapped. Most of the physical capital in their countries is owned by foreigners and the physical capital to worker ratio is much lower. Not to mention a lot of their population is very undereducated. If they manage to get control of their own resources, educate their population and start building more businesses they'll need less and less foreign aid as their economies grow.
A86 2 years ago
That's correct, and that requires funding. I'm not saying don't go into space. I'm saying, lets get the human race living at an acceptable quality of life first, then move forward from there.
Money in aid to African nations is not money down a hole. It keeps kids alive, but little more. But there are lots of projects that could make a huge difference with funding. Solar powered water pumps for example. That means food, which means healthier people and the basis for a sustainable economy.
GeoffBlackmore 2 years ago 2
Why don't you go save Africa. Frankly I'm not interrested.
sakoshooter48 2 years ago
Some people care about people first, and some don't. If you don't, then that is your choice. What was the purpose of your comment?
GeoffBlackmore 2 years ago
The purpose of my comment is that Africa is unsalvagable! Studies conducted in a non-public forum have again and again come to the conclusion that no matter how much money and aid is dumped into the dark continent, nothing will save its vastly diseased population. AIDS is already in an "end run" scenario as a disease goes, and there is nothing to stop its exponential spread through the greater black, non-muslim populations. Add to that the inherent political instability !!!!!!!
sakoshooter48 2 years ago
What are you talking about? Africa has several of the world's fastest industrializing and fastest growing economies right now. Angola has an annual economic growth rate of 17% right now (the US has averaged 2-3.5% for the past 20 years). South Africa has a rapidly expanding middle class. Africa is the continent being least affected overall by the current global recession.
A86 2 years ago
You so just sidestepped that I think that you might be a famous world dancer. Africa,we will speak of the continent, has only one real bright spot which is South Africa. Angola may be growing at an annual rate of 20%, but then again 20% of nothing is nothing. Northern Africa, almost no economic means of support, almost no developed agriculture, inadequate mineral extraction programs. A86, you are still so young that you do not remember countries like Rhodesia, they were ruined.
sakoshooter48 2 years ago
Africa is least effected by the global economic recession because they have never played a part in the world economy other than to be a drain on rescources. I lived in Rhodesia for about 7 months, right about the time it became Zimbabwe, what a cluster fuck! Lets let a bunch of uneducated thugs take over a country because its run predominately by whites. The same whites that made the country what it was. Africa is a shit hole and so it will remain until there is nothing left of it!
sakoshooter48 2 years ago
A good amount of oil and natural imports in the West come from Africa. They're about 1/5 of the world's agricultural exports.
A86 2 years ago
20% of nothing? The annual GDP of the continent (Africa) is over $2 Trillion. That's hardly nothing.
"countries like Rhodesia"
Yes, where 95% of the population was poor and the only people who had anything were the wealthy white minority after they stole the land from the indigenous population and used them as cheap labor to build the country.
Zimbabwe's economy was fine in the 80s and early 90s until they ran into problems getting into debt and printing money.
A86 2 years ago
NASA only receives $17 billion/year. That's about the same amount of charity the US gives each year to Africa. The Iraq War alone costs more in a couple of weeks than NASA costs in an entire year.
If you want to free up more money to help out poor and dying people stop these wars and corporate welfare. That will free up at least $4 Trillion right there. The goal of Project Constellation is to glean materials for alternative energy from the Moon and Mars. That's very important. Oil is drying up.
A86 2 years ago 2
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URProductions 2 years ago
i bet the people are waiting for da rocket 2 explode ..
mejus16 2 years ago
Is it me or does the spacecraft's attitude after separation must remain the same? It looked like something went wrong at this point... but i know nothing of this test.
lepape2 2 years ago
your right. the second stage is supposed to coast for several second before ignition. if this was a crewed flight they would have been killed
cmoriarty55 2 years ago
The second stage was and engineering dummy with no engines, fuel, or electronics, other than the flight data computers. THe purpose of the test was to check actual flight dynamics against projected engineering dynamics, the test was a resounding success!
sakoshooter48 2 years ago
Methane is also a greenhouse gas. It's also the reason to fear the permafrost melting in the high north. Permafrost melts = methane gas relase from the bogs = more warming
Zoomer30 2 years ago
Methane has far less to do with global warming than carbon dioxide.
A86 2 years ago 2
molecule-for-molecule basis methane is about eight times stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, but it is present in much smaller concentrations so that its total contribution is smaller.
alizaliz 2 years ago 2
looks sufficient to get man back to the moon
cripplewoox 2 years ago 2
People have talked about how the SRBs are not dependable and even dangerous because of what happened to the Challenger. However, that was caused by the O-ring failing due to cold weather conditions that we never launched under again. Not to mention the fact that the launch would have suceeded had the emissions from the base of the rocket not contacted the much less stable liquid rocket fuel causing the explosion. NASA redesigned the O-rings and flight procedures so it will never happen again.
TheGrerex 2 years ago 2
the reason SRBs are dangerous is not the O-rings. it is the fact that you can't shut them off.
normally this is not a problem but in the event of an abort it will be very dangerous
cmoriarty55 2 years ago
The same o-rings are used today. The motor joint is what got redesigned.
mach25man 2 years ago
I'm excited for the next stage of US Spaceflight! The Space Shuttle was an awesome piece of technology, it just got too dated.
Coolest part of this video, by the way, was being able to watch the rocket, from the ground, 20 miles up
cobalt1365 2 years ago 2
Keep in mind that the upper stage is just a mockup. The real upper stage is still in production.
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MRshoz1 2 years ago 6
(oops, I meant the Ares-V)
runaway50s 2 years ago 2
I'm just an amature space geek but I like this rocket design along with the bigger Ares-2 because of the smart simplicity and use of the avialable SRBs. I feel good about it and I think the whole system will work safley for our astronaunts and the program will proceed sucessfully.
runaway50s 2 years ago 5
I'm so happy this project got off the ground(literally). I've followed it since I was 12 and am now 17. My dad grew up during the Apollo project and I grew up watching his "From the Earth to the Moon" videos and am so excited that my children will get a similar if not better experience. If anyone reading this has any power over the future of this project, please acknowledge me. Don't just look at the cost.
PS: Global Warming is caused by man and any attempt to deny that is ignorance of fact.
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Man, you derailed the conversation faster than a wild-west villain with a handlebar mustache.
greanami 2 years ago