Launch Vehicles
Ares I
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A crew launch vehicle designed for NASA's Constellation program, intended to succeed the Space Shuttle by pairing a Shuttle-derived solid rocket booster first stage with a liquid-fueled upper stage to carry Orion spacecraft to orbit. Only a single suborbital test article, Ares I-X, ever flew before the program was cancelled in 2010.
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Vehicle ClassMedium-lift crewed launch vehicle (cancelled before operational service) 1 Manufacturer First Flight DateDate of the sole Ares I-X suborbital test flight; the design never reached operational, crewed service. StatusCancelled in 2010 with the Constellation program; its solid-booster heritage informed the later Space Launch System. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. NASA History Office
National Aeronautics and Space Administrationhttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/ares-i-x-complete/Quote, https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/ares-i-x-complete/
Standing tall at its fully assembled height of 327 feet, the Ares I-X is one of the largest rockets ever processed in the Vehicle Assembly Building's High Bay 3, Super Stack 5 at the Kennedy Space Center.
1. NASA History Office
National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationOperated By: NASAView the Source 2. Encyclopedia Astronautica
http://astronautix.com/a/ares.htmlQuote, http://astronautix.com/a/ares.html
The Ares I would boost Orion to earth-orbit missions with the International Space Station beginning in 2012 (as of 2006 - this had slipped to 2016 by 2008).
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