I am a huge space fan: I pretty much know the dialogue for all six Star Wars films backwards. I’ve seen every episode of Star Trek at least three times (and I even started to learn some Klingon at one point. Please don’t judge me). The movements of NASA have naturally been of great interest me.
So I listened carefully to the NASA announcement regarding the Constellation project recently that brought mixed news.
The good news was that the Ares rocket was, so far, looking good. Ares has a long way to go, but it has completed its first round of design tests successfully. 1,100 clever specialists have checked over the designs as closely as they can, fixed as many errors as they can spot, and deemed the Ares rocket safe to propel its precious cargo into the skies. This isn’t the end of the design for the Ares design team, though, but rather the start of a complex iterative process that will not see testing completed until the launch date.
The spot of bad news is that the launch date for the Constellation project has slipped back to 2015. That is 7 years I will have to wait! Five was bad enough! Ah well, keep on Trekking.
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September 26th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
[...] small first step on a ladder of design reviews and iterative changes that will only finish when the Ares rocket powers up and sends the Orbit shuttle hurtling into space. Exciting times for everyone, not [...]
September 26th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
[...] included in the final build. The team must do as much as possible towards testing as much of the Ares design and manufacture simply for the sake of those poor souls that are destined to be fired on the [...]
September 29th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
[...] rocket is perhaps the most important piece of the project as far as getting into space. Without Ares the Orbit shuttle becomes little more than a small bus without [...]
May 21st, 2009 at 5:11 am
Randy…
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