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ESMD Briefing on Ares 1 and Orion

By Keith Cowing

NASA Watch

January 25, 2007

Editor’s note: ESMD AA Scott Horowitz held a media briefing at NASA HQ today to discuss the Ares 1 and Orion projects.

Topics covered included Ares 1 performance, weight margins, Orion design, possible changes in booster design, and testing of the Orion spacecraft on both the Ares I – and possibly – the study concept vehicle dubbed by some as “Ares IV”.

Horowitz presented several charts that illustrate the Ares 1 design process and weight, performance, and programmatic margin status.

A more detailed article will be posted in the next day or so. Meanwhile, these are the charts Horowitz presented at the briefing.

Keith Cowing

NASA Watch founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.