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Aldrin: Ares 1-X Was Much Ado About Nothing

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
November 10, 2009
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Why We Need Better Rockets, Buzz Aldrin, Huffington Post
“Well, it looked spectacular. I’m referring to NASA’s recent launch of the Ares 1-X, billed as the prototype of the Ares 1 as a crew launch vehicle, a fancy term for a manned space booster. The rocket is said to have performed as planned, and ushered in the era of the Ares rockets to replace the Space Shuttle next year. Only it won’t. In fact, the much-hyped Ares 1-X was much ado about nothing. … So, why you might ask, if the whole machine was a bit of slight-of-hand rocketry did NASA bother to spend almost half a billion dollars (that’s billion with a “b”) in developing and launching the Ares 1-X? The answer: politics.”

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