Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Setbacks Cast Doubt On NASA's Ares Project

Posted by timothy on from the tax-dollars-to-space-at-best dept.

stoolpigeon writes with this excerpt from an Orlando Sentinel article about the Ares program, which paints a bleak picture of the program's future: "Bit by bit, the new rocket ship that is supposed to blast America into the second Space Age and return astronauts to the moon appears to be coming undone. First was the discovery that it lacked sufficient power to lift astronauts in a state-of-the-art capsule into orbit. Then engineers found out that it might vibrate like a giant tuning fork, shaking its crew to death. Now, in the latest setback to the Ares I, computer models show the ship could crash into its launch tower during liftoff. "

4 of 255 comments (clear)

  1. Re:It is called engineering. by Tubal-Cain · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'd rather see then implement

    Them.

    I need to go to bed. Just one more link...

  2. Re:Why is this so hard? by srothroc · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Also, what? I didn't check "Post Anonymously" and I /am/ logged in. Yet it posted as Anonymous Coward? Sigh.

    --
    http://www.tenjou.net/
  3. Re:Why is this so hard? by MichaelSmith · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It is possible to tab into the Post Anonymously component and fire it with the return key. In some browsers anyway.

    --
    http://michaelsmith.id.au
  4. Big waste of money by zmollusc · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why are they dicking around with rockets? What does rocket technology have to do with cloning?

    --
    They whose government reduces their essential liberties for temporary security, receive neither liberty nor security.