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    See The Ares I-X Launch Like Never Before

    Ares I-X Launch Gallery

    The Vehicle Of Our Mars Dreams Is A Needle Waiting To Thread Space
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    11/01/09

    In reply to See The Ares I-X Launch Like Never Before

    Can anyone spot Lex Luthor and Otis in this picture? #aresix
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    11/01/09

    In reply to Ares I-X Launch Gallery
    hi def video anyone? share share share #aresix
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    10/21/09

    In reply to The Vehicle Of Our Mars Dreams Is A Needle Waiting To Thread Space
    wait... NASA is doing something constructive? well if that don't beat all..... #space
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    10/21/09

    In reply to The Vehicle Of Our Mars Dreams Is A Needle Waiting To Thread Space
    yeah... needle and thread... that was totally the metaphor i was thinking of... certainly not any other, significantly dirtier, metaphors. no sir. not me. #space
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    Image of cljohnston108 cljohnston108
    10/21/09

    In reply to The Vehicle Of Our Mars Dreams Is A Needle Waiting To Thread Space
    I wasn't too impressed by the new ship until I saw it hard down at the pad.
    Using the Shuttle's old platform & gantry really gives a sense of the size difference.
    I'm sure it's gonna get its own support hardware at some point, but right now it all looks kinda odd sitting there, like when a kid puts his 1/32 scale model rocket on a 1/72 scale launch pad from an entirely different kit altogether.

    (Those tombstone-lookin' things are for the Shuttle's aft umbilicals, and the exhaust ports in the platform are off to either side, so that's why the Ares looks off-center on the platform.)
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    10/21/09

    @cljohnston108: Oooh, and here's a cool animation of the test flight that was post on Neatorama today... #space
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    10/21/09

    @cljohnston108: And I just noticed there was a better animation of the full mission to the Moon than what I saw years ago.
    I still don't like the design of the Altair lander, though: Dinky little tin can of an Ascent stage sitting on top of an effin' HUGE Descent stage!
    Quite disproportionate, methinks. #space
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    10/21/09

    @cljohnston108: Well, how freudian. #space
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    10/22/09

    @ThisDudeRufus: Whuh? #space
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    10/21/09

    In reply to The Vehicle Of Our Mars Dreams Is A Needle Waiting To Thread Space
    Please, please just work. I'm sick to death of not having an ongoing space mission to follow, and the ISS doesn't count. So don't explode, don't have a fuel leakage, don't have unexplained oscillations. Just fucking fly where they want you to. #space
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    10/21/09

    @ThisDudeRufus: Why does the ISS not count? It's the biggest structure ever put into orbit! #space
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    10/21/09

    @cljohnston108: I'm not saying it isn't cool, I'm just saying that it isn't an adventure anymore. Like DS9, they had to start doing stuff on the Defiant to keep it interesting. #space
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    10/21/09

    In reply to The Vehicle Of Our Mars Dreams Is A Needle Waiting To Thread Space
    I have high hopes ,even though Obama said he canceled the moon trip for 2020 , Though I don`t know how he could . #space
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    10/21/09

    @disatess: It hasn't been cancelled, merely placed under review. #space
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    10/21/09

    @snaboobaly: cool thank you . #space
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    10/21/09

    In reply to The Vehicle Of Our Mars Dreams Is A Needle Waiting To Thread Space
    Looks like a Jawa Sandcrawler with an erection. #space
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    Image of Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
    10/21/09

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    Basically the entire agenda for future space exploration in the US is riding on this test. Really hope it goes well.

    [www.spacecoalition.com] #space
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    Image of Kamenwati Kamenwati
    10/21/09

    @Belabras ate my dingo!: Sad but true my friend. It better work we need you to hit it out the park NASA! #space
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    10/21/09

    In reply to The Vehicle Of Our Mars Dreams Is A Needle Waiting To Thread Space
    "and has 700 sensors on board to understand how a rocket this tall can fly."

    NASA doesn't understand how this rocket will fly? #space
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    10/21/09

    @burlybax: in sim's they do. but until it flies for real, thats just, well, simulation... something could still trip them up.. #space
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    10/21/09

    @KhaiJB: By trip them up, do you mean explode in a ball of fiery fire? #space
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    10/21/09

    @burlybax: yup :) or a few hundred other failures :) #space
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    10/21/09

    In reply to The Vehicle Of Our Mars Dreams Is A Needle Waiting To Thread Space
    I love how they named it after the greek god of war!
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    10/21/09

    @bagofsnakes: I was wondering that myself. Why? Maybe because it going to Mars? Bah! they should have named it Athena. #space
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    10/21/09

    @Dresan: Athena is already the name of the second stage of the Delta II. #space
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    Image of tom004 tom004
    10/21/09

    In reply to The Vehicle Of Our Mars Dreams Is A Needle Waiting To Thread Space
    Orion is just a big Apollo Command and Service Module. It certainly would have no part in anything but a massively ill-conceived Mars mission. Why would you lug a heatshield all the way to Mars and back, when you can meet up with an Earth-return craft in Earth orbit? And do you really want to go all that way, and spend all that time, and be restricted to returning only the samples you could bring back in Orion? Not a great idea.
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    Image of chatain chatain
    10/21/09

    @tom004: "ill-conceived" is correct. It's a kluge, back to spam in a can on top of a bigger chemical bomb. We should do nothing manned until we have better ideas and more money to spend.
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    Image of vinylrake vinylrake
    10/21/09

    @chatain: I say wait until we have solar powered rockets. If we can't travel to space in a green way, we shouldn't go at all. #space
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    10/21/09

    @vinylrake: We gotta start somewhere, no? My bet is that we should be building our next space vehicles on the moon. Maybe building them on the ISS is not feasible, I'm not sure about that. #space
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    10/21/09

    @chatain: incremental progress. Because what you proposed will never happen. #space
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