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The towering white booster rose into the sky toward the east, peaked at about 28 miles (45 km) altitude, then dropped into the Atlantic Ocean, with parachutes softening its fall. By all appearances, the launch — which was aimed at demonstrating the rocket's design — was successful.

Despite the apparent success of Ares I-X's flight, the ultimate future of the Ares I rocket is uncertain.

The booster was originally designed to replace the space shuttles as a vehicle to ferry crews to the International Space Station. But the station is set to be de-orbited around 2016 and Ares I is not likely to be ready before 2017, defeating much of its purpose, some experts have said.

Last week, an independent review team appointed by U.S. President Barack Obama released a report detailing the status of America's human spaceflight program, and outlined possible alternate visions for NASA's future.

The president is currently reviewing the report and is expected to make a decision soon about whether to proceed with the Constellation program, which includes Ares I, or take the agency in a new direction. The report suggested that President Obama consider giving up on Ares I and instead urging private industry to step in and design a low-earth orbit vehicle for humans. That way, NASA could focus on building a heavy-lift vehicle to take people to the moon and Mars.

www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33504843/ns/technology_and_science-space/

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The Shuttle has a max range of 250 miles.

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"By the prognosis of statisticians, you should be dead in space and I should be in jail on Earth."
-Dr Baron Werner von Braun, NASA Nazi Waffen SS Major at Mittelworks underground ICBM factory and Death Camp at Norhausen, Germany, saved from war-crimes trial and death penalty for genociding 25,000 slaves via Pentagon's Operation Paperclip, to Apollo 11 moonwalker Lt Neil Armstrong

"All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach. By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise. Great liars are also great magicians. How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think. It is not truth that matters, but victory. he victor will never be asked if he told the truth. The German people must not know who I am. Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all."
-Adolf Hitler Shicklegruber Rothschild

"All this was inspired by the principle--which is quite true in itself--that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying."
-Adolf Hitler Shicklegruber Rothschild, Mein Kampf, Chapter 10

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Originally posted by Kwicko:

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The Shuttle has a max range of 250 miles.

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I'm sorry, but this really made me laugh.

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Originally posted by piratenews:


Here's a tip: Rockets can only steer with gimballed engine mounts, or else all thrusters must fire continuously during the entire flight under thrust. Ask Neil Armstrong, who crashed the LEM Sim even with a gimballed jet engine. Apollo LEMs had fixed engine mounts. I suspect Aries LMs also have fixed engine mounts.

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Originally posted by piratenews:

Apollo astronots never saw flashes.

BIG LIE.

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