If the venerable television series “Star Trek” has taught us one thing, it’s that the holodeck will never work properly and you should never go in there. But if it’s taught us two things, the second must be that space is the final frontier. Even when we’ve managed to learn everything there is to know about Earth, there will still be mysteries to explore in space.
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The First Flight of a New Era
December 15th, 2008
admin Less than a year from now, in 2009, NASA is going to launch a whole new generation of spacecraft and launch vehicle system. The test flight is called Ares I-X and it will bring scientists even closer to the exploration goals they have set for themselves.The main test objectives are focused on dynamics of the first stage flight, how easy it can be controlled , separation of the first and upper stages, ground operations, and first stage recovery.
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