Ares 1-X Launch: VAB Roof

[furon83]

so..it crashed? was anybody inside?

[rss0246]

Hey furon.

Ares I-X didn't crash! It was a brand new test rocket that flew exactly as hoped and planned. No one was on board.

Only the first stage was loaded with fuel. The upper half was full of instruments but empty. At the end of two minutes when the first stage burned out, the two halves were separated successfully and made to tumble to begin their returns to Earth.

[furon83]

thanks wall-e. (not ment in a bad way)

[rss0246]

Entire NASA annual budget = amount spent every 3 weeks at the Pentagon. Try not to be quite the curmudgeon -- and get your priorities straight...

[cmdmd]

Good thing it worked. Now the government has another white elephant to support.