Space agency goes ahead with demonstration despite concerns that it lacks cash to achieve a return to the moon... The US space agency, Nasa, has rolled out a demonstration version of its new rocket, the Ares 1-X, even though proposals have been put to the White House to scrap the launcher. The slender, 100 metre-high rocket was moved in a delicate, slow operation from its 52-storey assembly hangar at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida this morning to a launch pad about four miles away. Read entire article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/oct/20/nasa-ares-space-rocket |
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