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For the first time in nearly 30 years, a brand new NASA rocket has rolled out to a seaside launching pad in Florida to prepare for a launch test debut. The rocket is Ares I-X — a suborbital prototype for the Ares I rocket NASA plans to use to launch its shuttle successor, the Orion spacecraft. Currently the world's tallest booster, the Ares I-X rolled out to the launch pad early Tuesday and is slated to blast off Oct. 27. NASA administrator Michael Griffin testified before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation on 28 February 2007, saying that recent budget cutbacks could push the first Project Constellation missions into 2015, increasing the gap between the Shuttle and Orion programs. We don't want to wind up without manned spaceflight capability, like we were between Apollo and Shuttle! Let's go, Congress - someone will colonize the moon and Mars, it might as well be us! |
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