At last ! The unexampled Arex I - ecstasy skyrocket — the first looping of the rocket that will take world back to the Moon and beyond — is out of NASA ’s assembling facilities , and is now at Launch Pad 39B , getting quick for launch .
The assembled Ares I - X was mounted aboard NASA ’s sandcrawler at Kennedy ’s Vehicle Assembly Building at 1:39 a.m. It arrive at Launch Pad 39B around 7:45 ante meridiem
The Ares I - X will test the viability of the 100 - meter high Ares I , NASA ’s tallest , most sinewy rocket since the Saturn V. The Saturn V was ten meters higher than Ares , and it remain thebiggest , most powerful rocket ever launched .
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If everything goes well , Ares I - X will shell into the sky on October 27 , reaching 40 kilometers up in the air , and sending vital data about its performance . The first leg , a upstanding rocket engine , will return to Earth . The dummy upper leg will fall down to the sea .
Arex I - X is the first major milestone for the Constellation curriculum , which in theory would take over the shuttle , and also bring humans back to the Moon and Mars . If el Sr . Presidente gives the go ahead , that is . At this gunpoint , the Constellation programme is being evaluate by the Augustine Commission . Their final report , that will varnish its destiny , will be turn over in to the White House this hebdomad .
In other lyric , bask this one while it lasts . [ NASA ]
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