NASA ready to test Ares 1-X rocket

NASA is preparing to launch its Ares1-X rocket, but concerns about bad weather could delay lift-off.

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[Chrisjr2007]

For the morons who said this is a waste:

If only you HUMAN BEINGS tried to SEARCH THE WEB and looked at the BUDGET OF NASA,then you will know it is LESS than ANY OTHER Govenmental Agencies BUDGET.AND THE BENEFITS ARE BEYOND AMAZING!

NASA's budget IS LESS than 1%(O.35%) of ALL THE TOTAL FEDERAL BUDGET!

Learn or research BEFORE YOU SAY SOMETHING.

[winterstellar]

Yeah, I agree..we should stop doing all this satanic science-stuff and spend our time worshipping our holy SkyDaddy in the skies instead, haha! Sorry, but we don't live in the dark-ages anymore..science is the future and we really need to flush religion/superstition down the toilet soon! Cheers! : )

[ti994apc]

Does Ares1 demonstrate a new technology? Yes. But, I can demonstrate a new technology by driving to work using compressed air. That does not mean its practical. I just to re-state, Ares1 cannot fly anyone to the moon (regardless of what the announcer said on this video.) It can ONLY go to Low earth orbit.

[ti994apc]

I think NASA killed itself on this. It should have only worked on ares V and not tried to also develop Ares I. It should have committed to making a capsule for Atlas V (probably the safest best rocket available) or committed to helping space X with dragon. Ares1 did nothing but take people to LEO and does not do anything special to help us get to the moon.

[Tyrannobeast]

@ti994apc: What are you talking about? Every video of the Space Shuttle, Delta II, or any other launch vehicle with solid fuel has people commenting how "dirty" it looks, and how we should stop launching rockets because Mother Earth is dying and whatnot. I have to explain that it's just dust and that liquid fuels are evaporated when they burn, so you can't see the smoke. And anyway, Challenger was destroyed by a horizontal exhaust leak, which would not be immediately dangerous on the Ares 1.

[amourdutigre]

@ti994apc,

I do not know how much solid fuel vs. liquid fuel costs, so I won't comment. What I do know is that the cause of the Challenger explosion was poor design. NASA decided to use Morton Thikol rather than another contractor who could have built the SRB in one piece. Thiokol had to build multi piece SRBs due to transportation. The other contractor could make them one piece because they were close to the launch site. Poor seals of Thiokol cuased the explosion.

[Qulopuaa]

this is way cheap..But woulndt it be even cheaper to build new shuttle eg just copy the design.Since its 50 years old tech so the cost should be 50 times lower even if old they work and this singlemans rocket is really ..shitty a step to 50s really

[ti994apc]

If Ares I were to have a first stage failure there is NO chance the capsule will survive even with the best crew escape system. In a solid fuel explosion, debris chunks get blown in every direction for miles and it burns for long after the initial explosion. Molten chunks of solid fuel would eat the parachute system alive. The crew escape system could not pull itself far enough away to prevent this. Liquid fuel quickly consumes itself and does not have the same problem.

[ti994apc]

You could not be more wrong! Solid rocket fuel is BY FARE the MOST DANGEROUS and MOST expensive propellant and that is a fact. Do you even know how much the shuttle costs? Do you know how expensive stacking is? What is the most expensive rocket exposition in US History? Delta II in 1997 when its solid rocket fuel exploded and destroyed a parking lot and all its cars.

[bathat11165]

You are wrong. Solid rockets are ideal, save for the fact that they are not currently throttleable in real time, nor re-startable. Neither is a factor in boost phase. They are safer, cheaper, and lighter. Ever see a turbo pump let go?

[ti994apc]

Part of the problem is the Average American does not understand how rockets work. They see a smoke plume from solid rocket fuel and think its cool. When in reality solid rocket fuel is the worse possible fuel you can use, its what made Challenger blow up into a million pieces.

[carveriscool]

"Bob ass"