— The booster rocket used in a test flight was badly dented when it fell into the Atlantic because of a deflated parachute, NASA said Thursday. The new Ares I-X — the precursor to NASA's planned moon rockets — completed a... [read full story]
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Its hard to imagine NASA could face more challenges than the ones it stared at in October. On the good side, the space agency had a couple major successes first with the NASA LCROSS satellites successfully crashing into the...
The solid rocket booster used on the Ares 1-X test flight on Wednesday was damaged after parachutes designed to slow its descent failed, NASA officials said Friday. The booster, similar to those used for shuttle launches, was...
Inspection Shows Pronounced Buckling In Lower Segment NASA has recovered the main solid rocket booster of the Ares I-X following yesterday's test flight. The booster was found floating upright in the Atlantic ocean, but on...
Impact With The Ocean Likely Caused Booster Buckling NASA officials said in a news conference Friday that two of the three 150-foot parachutes designed to slow the descent of the Ares I-X booster failed, causing it to be...
photo by Pierre Ducharme The Big Picture has some amazing photos of NASA’s launch of the new Ares I-X rocket which took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday. This is a blog post from Laughing Squid,...
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...
The Ares 1-X rocket, launched by NASA on its first test flight Wednesday, October 28, 2009, performed normally except for a parachute problem and performed even better than expected with respect to its thrust oscillations....
How are we going to colonise the galaxy if we cant launch on a cloudy day? was only one of the disappointed posts on Twitter as Nasas countdown ground to a halt for the umpteenth time on Wednesday. The US space agency was...
Posted on: Saturday, 31 October 2009, 07:05 CDT Two of three parachutes malfunctioned during a test flight of a prototype moon rocket earlier this week, NASA reported on Friday. The problem caused major damage to the Ares I-X...
Ares didn't shake, rattle wildly, but did roll as planned BY TODD HALVORSON • FLORIDA TODAY • October 31, 2009 CAPE CANAVERAL — CAPE CANAVERAL -- NASA's slender Ares I-X flew a "rock-steady" test flight that allayed fears that...
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