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Ares Vehicles: This IS Rocket Science
Building a rocket to send humans and tens of thousands of pounds of cargo to space isn't easy.
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Rocket Motor Test Helps Shuttle and Ares I
NASA's Space Shuttle Program successfully fired a reusable solid rocket motor Thursday in Utah.
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The Engines of the Future
NASA's A-1 test stand draws on its legacy to advance the future of exploration.
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Firing Room 1 Gets a New Look
This historic facility is set to be remodeled to serve NASA's Constellation Program.
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NASA Opens 'Door to Exploration'
After 20 years, the west high-bay door of an historic Kennedy Space Center facility reopens in anticipation of assembly work on the new Orion crew capsule.
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NASA Developing New Heat Shield for Orion
NASA's new spaceship of the future must endure searing temperatures as the spacecraft streaks into the Earth's atmosphere on the way back from the moon.
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NASA Names Orion Contractor
Orion is the central member of a family of spacecraft and shuttle-derived launchers that will go to the moon and Mars.
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New Crew Vehicle Named Orion
Orion is the vehicle NASA’s Constellation Program is developing to carry a new generation of explorers back to the moon and later to Mars.
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What Goes Up Must ... Well ... Go Up
It takes a lot of crane to lift a three-and-a-half-ton space shuttle main engine up from its trailer.
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Something Old, New on the Way to Mars
Steve Cook, project manager for NASA's new Ares rockets, laid out the plan to send humans to Mars.
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Ares: NASA's New Rockets
Rockets' name honors the past, salutes the future.
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Building NASA's New Spacecraft
NASA's ten field centers will each play a vital role in the Constellation Program, developing the spacecraft that will take humans back to the moon.
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Exploration Systems Progress Report
NASA has chosen the RS-68 engine to power the core stage of the agency's heavy lift cargo launch vehicle intended to carry large payloads to the moon.
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Mockup Provides Early Glimpse of New Craft
A full-sized mockup of the Crew Exploration Vehicle's cockpit helps engineers visualize what drawings and diagrams cannot show.
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NASA's New Spaceship
Before the end of the next decade, NASA astronauts will again explore the surface of the moon.
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