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By rss@youtube.com (wired) To get the crew away from the launch rocket in case of an emergency, the Launch Abort System motor delivers half a million pounds of thrust; by design, it burns through more than half of its fuel in just three seconds, which will mean the astronauts in the escape vehicle will have to endure G-...

Still not sure about booster 'chute failure NASA chiefs in charge of the agency's next-generation rocket program said on Thursday that their $445 million Ares I-X test flight was a success in proving the launch vehicle's design.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud

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NASA will host a media teleconference with Bob Ess, Ares I-X mission manager, at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 3. Ess will provide reporters with an update on data gathered during the test flight of the rocket, which took place Oct. 28.

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Moving the space station Saturday would have impacted the timing for the Soyuz flights to and from the station, said NASA space operations chief Bill ... NASA: Floating 'junk' no threat to space stationThe Associated Press International Space Station Under Threat of Space Junk Collision...

By Keith Cowing Trip to asteroid could give life to Ares V rocket, Huntsville Times The Augustine panel's report also suggests that an asteroid destination would allow NASA to use resources trapped in the floating rocks and mine rocket fuel from them, setting... Trip to asteroid could give life to Ares V ro...

By Keith Cowing Time Magazine Falls for Rocket Launch Hoax - Names Ares "Invention of the Year" Based on Launch of Dummy Vehicle, Space Frontier Foundation "While many reporters know that Ares 1 is far behind schedule and likely to be canceled as... Time Magazine Falls for Rocket Launch Hoax - Names Ares "In...

NASA has confirmed that the impact of the LCROSS spacecraft and its spent upper stage rocket uncovered about 25 gallons of water from debris uplifted in a lunar crater that...

By Nancy Atkinson Whoa. As many people noted on Twitter: Didn't see this one coming. Time Magazine named NASA's Ares rocket as the 2009 Invention of the Year. Ares beat out the what has been billed as the world's best paper airplane, the bladeless fan, rubber made from dandelions, and, my favorite, teleportat...

By Nancy Atkinson Just one week after the first test flight test of the Ares I-X rocket, NASA says it may decide to cancel a follow-up launch called Ares 1-Y, which wasn't scheduled until 2014. Reportedly, program managers recommended dropping the flight because, currently, there isn't the funding to get...

NASA engineers still aren't sure what went wrong with a pair of parachutes that failed during Wednesday's Ares I-X rocket test flight, causing damage to the spent booster when it splashed into the Atlantic Ocean harder than planned.

By Nancy Atkinson The damage seen on the Ares I-X booster occurred as a result of parachute failure, which caused the rocket to impact the water harder than expected. Ares I-X manager Bob Ess briefed reporters today on the preliminary data from Wednesday's test flight of NASA new rocket, and said the parach...

NASA has discovered a large dent on its brand-new moon rocket after the booster splashed into the Atlantic Ocean at the end of a test flight this week.

By Nancy Atkinson The booster rocket used in the Ares I-X test flight was found to be badly dented when divers located it in the Atlantic Ocean. The damage could have occurred as the booster hit the water. Video from the booster cut out, so NASA said they do not yet know if all three of the [...]

By Nancy Atkinson After Wednesday's picture perfect launch of the Ares I-X test rocket — which revealed no real showstoppers or issues as of yet for the vehicle — the obvious next question is: now what? Much of what comes next for the Ares program, and Constellation in general, hinges on any decisions the Ob...

By Nancy Atkinson There are some great images of Wednesday's Ares I-X launch. Most notable is this one of the bow shock that formed around the 327-foot-tall rocket as it went supersonic at about 39 seconds into the flight. Liftoff of the 6-minute flight test from Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center i...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The apparent success of NASA's first test flight of a new experimental moon rocket has the American space agency beaming with joy.

NASA successfully launched Wednesday the prototype for a new generation of space rocket, advancing its plans to return man to the Moon by 2020.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A one-of-a-kind NASA rocket soared into the Florida sky Wednesday in a brief but critical test flight of a new booster slated to launch astronauts into space and, eventually, toward the moon.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA will try a second time to launch its experimental Ares I-X test rocket Wednesday, after cloudy weather and minor setbacks foiled a first attempt.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Bad weather and a series of unlucky events thwarted repeated attempts by NASA to launch the prototype Ares I-X rocket on a test flight Tuesday.

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At 11:20 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, October 27, 2009, NASA gave up trying to launch its first test flight of its new Ares 1-X rocket. The entire morning was besieged...

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Launch controllers tried repeatedly Tuesday to get the Ares I-X rocket flying. They got to within two-and-a-half minutes of launching the rocket, but the weather interfered. Minor problems stalled the countdown earlier in the morning.

New NASA photographs have revealed a rare, and ultimately fleeting, glimpse at a pair of rocket ships — an old space shuttle and a gleaming rocket prototype — on two different launch pads in Florida.

NASA's first flight test of its Ares I-X booster is only slated to last two minutes, but it represents the culmination of years of work by the rocket-minded ATK Space Systems in Utah and almost 1,000 other NASA workers and private contractors across 17 states.

By Nancy Atkinson The Ares I-X and the space shuttle on the launchpads at KSC. Credit: NASA. Click for larger version. Possible rain and high clouds are the only "ifs" so far for the test flight of the Ares I-X rocket on Tuesday morning, the first test flight of a new rocket for NASA in over 30 years. [...]

By Nancy Atkinson Following a flight test readiness review, NASA has given the 'all systems go' for the Ares I-X maiden test flight on Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 8 a.m. EDT from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. "I am proud of the work this team has done to ready this test rocket for launch," said [...]

NASA is confident that its first test flight of the new Ares I-X rocket will go well next week. But if it ends in an explosive failure, the agency affirmed that the nearby space shuttle Atlantis atop its own launch pad will be safe.

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By Betsy Mason You can also watch videos from NASA TV of science updates, mission activity, rocket launches and other events. Another fun option is checking in on NASA’s various missions with status updates and live countdowns clocks. And if you need to know exactly where the International Space Statio...

NASA on Tuesday carted a sleek, towering rocket out to the launch pad to test the vehicle planned to replace the retiring space shuttles and return U.S. astronauts to the moon.

By Alexis Madrigal The Ares I-X is scheduled to launch October 27th, and NASA officials hailed its arrival at the launch pad as a major milestone for the Constellation program, which was former NASA administrator Michael Griffin’s plan to execute President George W. Bush’s Vision for Space Exploration. Bu...

NASA's new rocket is on the launching pad. The experimental Ares rocket traveled from the hangar to the pad Tuesday morning.

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NASA has pushed back the launch target for the space shuttle Atlantis to Nov. 16 — a four-day slip — to give its new Ares I-X rocket an extra chance to blast off, agency officials said Monday.

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NASA is delaying its November space shuttle launch by four days to provide more breathing room for a test flight of its new rocket.

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By Nancy Atkinson It's the old shuttle shuffle. The launch of Atlantis for the STS-129 mission has been pushed back by four days to November 16 (at 2:28 pm EDT) to accommodate two unmanned rocket launches from Cape Canaveral, as well as the inaugural launch of the Ares I-X, scheduled for October 27. Right now t...

NASA is preparing a violent return to the moon Friday as part of a mission to send a satellite and a rocket booster crashing into the planet's surface to look for water.

The United States successfully blasted a rocket into the moon on Friday, slamming it into a crater near the lunar south pole in a bid to discover water, US space agency NASA said.

A NASA spacecraft and its trusty rocket stage are drawing ever closer to the moon to intentionally crash to their doom Friday, all in the name of science.

By Nancy Atkinson Using traditional chemical rockets, a trip to Mars – at quickest — lasts 6 months. But a new rocket tested successfully last week could potentially cut down travel time to the Red Planet to just 39 days. The Ad Astra Rocket Company tested a plasma rocket called the VASIMR VX-200 engine, which...

By Nancy Atkinson NASA photographer Bill Ingalls is in Russia at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, capturing the rollout of the Soyuz TMA-16 rocket today, scheduled to launch on Sept. 30 to the International Space Station. Of course the Soyuz rollout and launch is a whole different experience from th...

By Carmela testing! For the 1st time in twenty five years, a brand new space rocket is prepped and ready in NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building. The projects name is the Ares I-X rocket, it has a crew program that is 100 percent simulated and contains a launch abort program. They are [...]

By Alexis Madrigal There are a host of technical details and variations on each plan, but the key questions are [ppt]: When will the shuttle be phased out? When will the International Space Station be de-orbited? Which rocket — Ares I, Ares V, modified Ares V, shuttle-styled, or a commercial launch vehicle...

By Xeni Jardin Ares I is part of a new system of spacecraft being designed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to replace the nation???s aging space shuttles. The Ares I and its Orion capsule, along with a companion heavy-lift rocket known as the Ares V, are meant for travel to the Moon an...

By Chris Bergin As NASA’s triumphant 2008 year comes to a close - a year that saw four Space Shuttle construction flights to the International Space Station (ISS) - engineers around the United States are working hard to ensure a safe and successful 2009, starting with the launch of Discovery’s STS-119...

By Howard Dratch This mission romantically referred to as "STS-117" by NASA plans to keep working on the construction of the International Space Station just as have the last two missions. This one is to use what has been learned on previous flights to install new solar collectors and pull in an older one.