Ares 1-X Launch: Liftoff!

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

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.

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

yes, but we can't hear it.

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

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)

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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

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.

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

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