Brian Yee » ares http://www.brianyee.org Neither Here Nor There Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:29:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Ares I-X Rollout http://www.brianyee.org/2009/10/ares-i-x-rollout/ http://www.brianyee.org/2009/10/ares-i-x-rollout/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:38:52 +0000 brianyee0 http://www.brianyee.org/?p=185 I tried to stay up to watch the start of the rollout live – scheduled for 12:01AM this morning, but it got delayed about an hour, so I’m glad I didn’t.  The last bit of the rollout is happening right now.

Someone on the nasaspaceflight.com forum this morning noted that the last rocked to rollout from the VAB that wasn’t the shuttle was ASTP (on a Saturn 1B), which rolled to pad 39B on March 24 1975.  It was an interesting sense of scale.  And it’s neat to finally see something new.

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]]> http://www.brianyee.org/2009/10/ares-i-x-rollout/feed/ 0 Ares http://www.brianyee.org/2009/10/ares/ http://www.brianyee.org/2009/10/ares/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:58:17 +0000 brianyee0 http://www.brianyee.org/?p=176 One of the things I’ve been looking forward to recently is the rollout (on 10/20) and the launch (scheduled for 10/27) of  Ares I-X: NASA’s first test flight of the new rockets in support of the Constellation Program (created by Bush II in his Vision for Space Exploration).

It’s been exciting to read about the development, creation, and assembly of the new rockets — the first new thing from NASA since the launch of STS-1 in 1981.  Even more exciting, in a different sort of way, is to read the debates going on right now on the web and trying to figure out what’s going to happen next.  There’s been a review of the entire program by the Augustine Commission — and the future direction of NASA is going to announced soon by new NASA administrator Charles Bolden.

Whether or not Ares I continues development, it’s still an exciting time in Human Spaceflight…even if you only get to watch from the sidelines.

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