Ares 1-X Launch: Liftoff!

[rss0246]

Actually, Skeezy, I was there and can assure you it was MORE fun than launching another shuttle, because all the thousands of cheering NASA workers knew that they were watching the prelude to continued U.S. human spaceflight in the post-shuttle era. Too bad the dopey politicians got in the way...

[skeezysquirrel]

I'm sorry, This just isn't as much fun as launching shuttles. Just sayn...

[TheInsaneJaguar]

This is just a prototype, the latest one is called Kratos 1-X :p

[EurofighterVsRaptor]

Slower than I expected to be honest..

[eivissano]

What a disappointment, compared to a Shuttle.

[ROCKSOLID19]

The launch is incredibly fast.

[Zoomer30]

Oops we meant MAXIMISE damage to the pad

[MrHalosniper117]

i still go for the shuttle

[TheHotelMoxa]

it flew.

[Darko2625]

That's supposed to be the next moon rocket.

[romulopap]

primitive technology! =/ Nasa should use her money to help researchers with more promissing ideas than just burning up fuel!

[jag9998]

@romulopap I'm with you on this one. Have you ever heard of "Skylon" by Reaction Engines Limited? Now that would be a turn for the better.

[ganstabreakincity]

1:27 breaks sound barrier!!

[ti994apc]

Besides the fact that Falcon9 being much safer than Ares 1. Falcon9 is estimated to have a recurring cost of almost $45.8 Million per flight. Ares 1 is estimated to have a recurring cost of almost $1Billion per flight.

[ChrisInAStrangeLand]

@ti994apc

Atlas V Heavy will also have a cost of less than $150m per flight in high volume, which is less than $1B also.

[briandamage77]

@ti994apc.. first safey... the 60+ years of experience with only 3 real failures gives nasa an edge in safety against any other competitor. thou both are unproven designs. the nasa experience adds up. second cost.... a recent analisys has given a cost of 180 mill per ares I launch.. if u consider the fact that falcon9 lifts 3 times the payload ... its even in cost..... and im not mentioning the 188 tons heavy lift capability ARES V... u would have to strap togetherlike 15 falcons to do that

[ti994apc]

While technically is it impressive, it is not a practical rocket. The escape system is so big and heavy (as required to have a reasonable chance to survive a "solid" rocket fuel explosion) that it makes the rocket a heavy lift rocket just to take one 4 or 5 people to LEO. I believe we are much better off to use Falcon9 (much safer design) for moving people. Plus Falcon 9 carries 7 people.

[briandamage77]

@ti994apc again.... out of 133 operational launches.... 265 SRB have worked perfectly and just one experienced a partial failure.... proven before unproven... ust like the russians with the R-7 design

[alex62495]

From my understanding, the Constellation Program is not 100% done for. Obama did not include funding for it in his planned 2011 budget released last January. But there are rumors that due to many oppositions, including from congress members from both parties, that he may include funding for it. In an April announcement, he included funding for the Orion capsule, which was designed to land on the moon, but unfortunately, it is now just for a lifeboat for the ISS at the moment.

[GeneralBerger]

"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another."--- Plato

[Kargaroc286]

also, i'd be spending 17 billion a DAY on this.

[Kargaroc286]

It seems that this is a very sound rocket.

WHY THE HELL did they have to cancel it?

[dhbiza]

@Kargaroc286 Honestly?? Because, Bush implemented this, Obama cannot allow it to go forward. Just as Kennedy gave us the 1st moon shot which came to be fulfilled under Nixon, Kennedy still got the credit (Nixon was mad about this...read his memoirs). Obama The Magnificient wont allow Bush to get any glory from a future moon shot, he'd rather have us buy rocket flights from the Russians than have that! Google this stuff and you will see many leading rocket scientists are saying this.

[hoot101]

@dhbiza Sir Bush saying were going to the moon and mars is easy to say. He didnt fund it! It was nothing more than words and after that rover landed you never heard about it again. Nasa's 17 billion a year budget isnt going to the Moon or Mars. The only thing Nixon had to do with Apollo is cancelling it. But with everything going on Obama didnt see the big picture here. Forget about the moon lets start a new space race.

[cycalxc]

Vibrations appear to be very low as the onboard camera shots suggest a smooth burning in contrast to the Shuttles launch videos. It would be interesting to see a comparison of this data between Aries and other rocket launches.

[jnthnbush]

what are those towers around the launch for?

[basvg1]

@jnthnbush That are the three towers for the lighting protection. Wires between the 3 towers will protect the rocket and launchpad. For more information, search google for 'ares lighting towers' and click the second results, wich is a NASA page.

[jnthnbush]

@basvg1 interesting, thanks for the info.

[101andrewj]

@jnthnbush decor

[FS9Media]

Gary your not an intelligent man. you dont even know obama was born in Hawaii and your talk shit about him =/

[razorozar]

Well, he was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Last time I checked, Hawaii was a part of the United States.

[GShepardP]

I'm Johnny Knoxville and we're going to the moon!

[URProductions]

Q. What must we do to halt "climate change"? A. We need to find an alternative for oil. Wind and solar aren't good enough, they just sit there and take it. What we need is an active form energy production. Enter: Nuclear Fusion. Helium-3, the fuel for Fusion, is rare on Earth but aboundant on the Moon. Hell, moondust is practically made of the stuff and one ton yeilds $3billion worth of energy. Convinced anyone?

[swunt10]

thats not true. really. helium-3 can't help. we didn't get a deuterum-deuterum fusion work before 2050. (EU data) besides that get it from the moon means. go to the moon. searching through a field as big as 400 football field and all this 3meters deep. get the helium out of it. (really big factories, also need to get there) and bring it to the earth. really stupid idea.

[URProductions]

you're stupid.

[swunt10]

sure. thats what i'm. but are you?

[URProductions]

Before 2050!??? That's 40 years from now. You're talkin' as if that year has already transpired.

[swunt10]

but everything i'm said is true. if it sounds strange or not. there is no nuclear fusion as an alterative befor 2050. and they say that the deuterium deuterium fusion is the most likely one they get done. so no helium 3 even if there is a little more on the moon that on the earth. look at the ITER project. expensive and long term science, isn't it?

[URProductions]

Well maybe they should pump more money into it. Hell, they figured out the atom bomb in just a handful of years during the Manhatten Project. Nowadays we're getting all these Iphones and handheld gizmos and we're calling it material progress and yet, we're not going back to the moon and fusion is more than 50 years away apparently.

I'm getting sick and tired of everybody sitting on their asses, let's get to work, let's do shit let's go places, get that fucking cell phone out of your face. fuck.

[swunt10]

^^yes but the manhatten project took advantages from all the german scientists who figured out the theory and the engineering stuff. today every nation (nearly the whole developed world) are allowed to send their scientist to the project because they pay for it. and to many people and ideas lead to nothing. it's a way more complicated than to bomb something together. and there is more than just one way to get a fusion done. such as a complicated shape developed by a DLR scientist. aso.

[URProductions]

We're getting sidetracked. My original point was it's complete and udder bullshit that Obama's cutting the funding to space program, although most of my comments were deleted probably because I put down everybodies favorite president.

[swunt10]

i'm a student of aerospace engineering so i love the idea of going into space. but the moon isn't a great goal if you ask me (and many others) it would just end as the ISS or the space shuttle. as a big elefant, wasting money and decades of time. a journey to mars would be a step forward. a habitable planet. and as far as i know did obama increase the founding of NASA just not as hight as they wanted it.

[URProductions]

The ISS is not an elephant and the space shuttle served as a great work horse for 30 years. If we are going to conquer space we must conquer it thoroughly not sporadically. Money is fickle numbers crunched by fat men in suits. I don't give a fuck about the costs let's just fucking do it already.

[swunt10]

the ISS and the STS are elephants. they just scratching the upper atmosphere. that's nothing more than the beginning but a beginnig after we nearly finished it in the 1960s. the STS bravely kept us 30years in the lowest atmosphere and the ISS is not even close to be called revolutionery ore usefull for science. we should go to mars, later jupiter moons and asteroides and planetoids. maybe to the moon for big telescopes. we should develop real multifunktional spacecrafts so yes more money please

[URProductions]

Then you agree that it's bullshit that Obama cut the funding? Because with these fucking budget cuts we're gonna be stuck in low orbit for another couple decades.

[swunt10]

like i said before. i've heard that obama increased the funding. just not as hight as they wanted it, so nasa decided not to go to the moon again. but maybe i'm wrong.

[URProductions]

Well I hope you're not wrong. 'Cause if that's true, than I'm getting pissed off for nothing. But any increase in funding is a good thing. If that's true, I'll change my whole mind right now about that guy.

[Zoomer30]

The parachutes are not deplyoed till long after the SRB blows up. So that would not be an issue.

[ti994apc]

The major SRB issue that NEVER gets talked about is: When there is a failure with liquid fuel, the fuel quickly vaporizes in a matter of seconds. With Solid fuel failures you have big chucks burning debris that continue to burn like coal for several minutes. *There is no escape system out there that can carry a capsule far enough away from the explosion to prevent the parachute from being eaten up from the the burning chucks of solid debris. NASA know this too!

[UdallIn72]

I'm pretty sure they've thought of this.

In any case, there are probably various abort-necessitating failures that wouldn't involve the solid rocket actually releasing propellant into the open atmosphere.

[wiseman85]

they parachutes do not deploy right away on the escaped pod, but instead it is rocketed away and falls for a little. then the chutes are deployed

[oreoweb6]

I'm glad i got to see Ares 1-X on the tour of ksc. As Fred Haise said on apollo 13"she sure was a good ship" :-) its funny to note they must practiced the countdown many times. The guy paused (t-6) when they usually say "go for main engine start" for the shuttle lol guess you cannot break old habits

[ti994apc]

In addition to all the obvious fatal dangers of using solid rocket fuel, and having an escape system that can NOT pull it clear of a malfunctioning rocket.. They had another parachute failure on the solid rocket booster just like the one they had Orion capsule that crashed on Aug 18 which would have killed all the crew. I only pray that NASA has enough sense to use the FALCON9 rocket rather than Ares1.

[rss0246]

ti - Don't know if you work on Falcon or not, but your "obvious fatal dangers" of solid rocket fuel are overstated. The Ares escape system will work, just as others have worked. The Orion parachutes will work too -- just like on Apollo and Soyuz. Most important, the post-Challenger redesign of the SRBs (now evolving into the Ares SRM) was wonderfully clever and has worked perfectly for 220 straight flights now. This is the simplest, least costly AND safest way to go back to the Moon...

[GeneralBerger]

"Astronomy compels the soul to look upward, and leads us from this world to another."

[chomble918]

WICKED....cant wait to travel to the moon one day....1:27 you can see if passing through the sound barrier....go NASA

[PhillipThunderGrunge]

true...I def. rather have NASA spend our tax dollars...then support a fucking worthless war....innocent people losing their lives on both side..while the people running the operation are going unscaved and absolutely rich....it's sick...

we could actually spend even more on America's pitiful education system.

[sirnicholson]

do they have a sonic boom when they hit the sound barrier

[MrSquitwet]

yes, but we can't hear it.

[MrAmerica1995]

I can only hope that Obama doesn't scrub this project. That rocket is just too beautiful to pass up.

[Avatarfan2012]

@MrAmerica1995 Too late he alrdy has.

[MrAmerica1995]

@Avatarfan2012

I know >(

[Zoomer30]

I remember when I was a we lad of 6 or 7 (can't remember the year) watcing on CBS as the dropped the shuttle Enterprise off the back of the 747 for the ALT tests. 32 or so later and I watched another vehicle take it's first test (how tech has come along- BnW TV vs Nasa TV on my Touch)

[crazybastard82]

zoomer:

blame the trekkies for the fact that an Enterprise never reached space, lol. if they hadn't been so eager to get the first orbiter named the Enterprise then they might have realized that it was simply a glider never meant for launch...lmao

[Zoomer30]

The fly away move MAXIMISED damage to the tower :) it was really meant to just make sure the rocket did not hit the tower on it's way by.

[Parrambusties]

The upper half looks (a bit) like the A-2 Soyuz launcher 8D

[RichardSRussell]

Man, and I used to think my old Studebaker Silver Hawk could scratch off! WOW!!

[MrChristian326]

This is the next step to go back to the Moon. I can't wait to witness this event - for the second time. Hey NASA guys! Way to go! You have my full support!

[mach25man]

Hold onto your hats. Obama might turn this into Project Cancellation !

[r32adt3db]

I can't wait until some amateur rocket person or entrepreneur like Branson proves how much of a waste money NASA is, when they go to outer space for about 1/1000000 the cost that NASA spends on everything. That will be day I will go around kicking every NASA person in the balls for wasting our taxpaying dollars.

[unknown1771]

We spend 5 billion a month in Iraq/Afghanistan.

I'd much rather spend that on Nasa and manned flights than war.

[A86]

Hell yes. I'd rather spend $17 billion/year on this than $5 billion/month on useless wars to kill people for the sake of oil companies and military contractors. NASA has a high rate of return on investments and has generated countless pieces of technology. Project Constellation will create tens of thousands of domestic jobs when it gets underway, more than the bailouts and the stimulus plans have.

The Wars just left us with multi-trillion dollar debt.

[arsenal553]

@A86 I agree that the war is pointless but you should be ashamed to say that our soldiers are killing people for oil. Our soldiers are killing terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan to save the lives of innocent people.

[A86]

@arsenal553 - Most of the people killed in Iraq have been civilians. But I agree that most soldiers don't kill innocent people intentionally. Perhaps they believe they're fighting to liberate a country but that's not what the Military-Industrial Complex sent them over there for.

[arsenal553]

@A86 Have you ever thought about the suicide bombers? Thats whats killing most civilians

[A86]

@arsenal553 - They're killing a lot of people but not the majority. Most of the civilians killed were killed during the bombings.

[sakoshooter48]

@A86 SHADDUP!

[A86]

@sakoshooter48 - No. :)

[RobertsDigital]

@A86 Ares 1 was cancelled by congress because much of the money the US would have used for space exploration & reasearch and technology is used for afghanistan occupation and yes iraq too(congress has second thoughts on Iraq now --Its no more about leaving Iraq now, it's now about staying in iraq if the iraqis want). While China is heavily into research and technology including space exploration and how to develop themselves the US is looking for more tax money to waste on occupation.

[RobertsDigital]

@A86 US occupation of Iraq has never yielded any benefits for the US than result in a total waste of money on militarily expenditure. A waste of money in Iraq/afghanistan occupation with no war. Now what if a real war broke out how will the US defend itself with the worlds highest debt of over 13 thrillion and an additional 1 trillion plus owed to China. Many countries are developing newer weapons with newer technology while the US will be forced to use the old stuff it already has. Shame.

[TheWizardTrembyle]

@RobertsDigital Send everything you need into Afghanistan to capture bin laden: air support, ground support, and a few ranger battalions to back up and support Delta Force. A lion attacks a mouse with all it's strength, spare no effort. Instead our Government relied on a bunch of planes and a few Afghan gangs to support twenty some odd Delta commandos. If you read "Kill Bin Laden" you'll get a very good idea of just how "well" those half-hearted goat herders supported Delta Force.

[TheWizardTrembyle]

@RobertsDigital Then our Government began a massive deployment of combat and support units into Afghanistan...after Bin Laden had escaped into Pakistan.

[NerdzClub2]

I think NASA is a good alternative until the free market provides a better option, more consistently.

The Internet started as a US government project, and now it's totally out of their control. It's no reason to kick the INTRAnet team in the balls. We should be thanking them for wasting our tax dollars where it counts, honestly.

[Aofex]

So, in 30 years, the big advancement was liquid fuel --> solid fuel?!? Like rocketry models have been using for years?

Come on, you can do better than that.

Chemistry still owns space, bitches.

[elgranto7]

A lot more physics then chemistry.

[fueledbymanga]

It looked like it was tipping slightly, but other than that good luck Ares 1-X ^_~

[RNJuiceable]

It "tips" on purpose to clear the MLP. I thought the same thing but researched the GN&C data

[RNJuiceable]

AKA: "roll away maneuver"

[elgranto7]

It is ment to tip, you don't get into orbit going straight up lol.

[danschaoticmind]

I loved this launch (even if I had to wait up till 1230 to see it)

do we have confirmation as to the cause of te bendback on the second stage? It almost looked as if one of the explosive bolts didn't fire.

Also, Ares 1-X looks much more...Imposing than the shuttle. I must confess there is something to be said about a taller yet lighter space craft.

[Japancreatedtheworld]

迫力にかけるな〜。

[MrAmerica1995]

IIf shuttle launches get a Magnificent level of 1, this gets a 9.9. Good job NASA, I can certainly already see the future.

[gretzkysyotes]

I hope the number crunchers allow this program to continue. This is the future.......

[funnyfootlong]

can't wait for the ares V!!! gonna be a beast

[ghasedak1385]

Good luck Ares 1-x from Iranians,

[RJY4356]

It's not necessary to say booster ignition" as we do on the space shuttle- there is only ONE booster, the vehicle itself with Ares.

[MondoMedia7]

Thank you Mister Spock

[UnDeadPheonix]

I remember this whole thing in my science class we waited and waited cause of the delays but it was amazing

[ti994apc]

The Ares 1-X looks like it starts to "TIP OVER" and it has to correct itself. I pray Falcon9 rocket is a success. I am not a fan of Ares 1-X.

[pardusianshrike]

Saturn V did the same. It's so the rocket doesn't hit the tower if there's a gust....plus you don't want to launch any vehicle straight up.

[yumsalad]

Wow.. i can't believe there's only a few hundred views of this video.

How sad.

[basvg1]

Popular videos always stay at about 300, the next day the real number is displayed.

[red152mm]

Just Beautiful!!!

[cmsahe]

Great, like if it were 1966 again! I hope NASA returns to the Moon.

[BobaKnut]

Great lift off! Congrats NASA! Well done!

[neelespn]

22 million Horse power

[svenssonsk]

Neat glitch at 1:37

[rougueg]

Congratulations to all involved

[JoeLovetoSing]

Magnificent! What a great new rocket design. Congratulations NASA.

[danschaoticmind]

Thanks for the quick upload.

I had about 3 streams going plus full audio comms up and running.

Still, I could not record stream. Such is a pity. God what a beautiful flight...

[whiteranger87]

that was absolutely flawless (we can only hope)

breathtaking. way to play it NASA

cant wait till the boilerplate orion ARES 1-Y test

[whatthehellbrosef]

One more small step...

[soaresbruno077197]

great....I was Watching too............

[flyboy172r]

What a launch!!!!

[A86]

Congratulations NASA!! Beautiful launch! Hopefully this will finally shut up some of the naysayers.

AMERICA FUCK YEAH!!

[b33wallace]

Go baby Go!

[akse112]

good stuff!

[HalfCockedMD]

Way to go NASA!

[raistlin072]

Awesome

[space99dude]

cool

[MawcDrums]

WOOHOOOO!!!