Pieces Coming Together For NASA's New Spacecraft

Matt_dk points out an update on the progress of development for NASA's Ares I launch rocket, excerpting: "NASA is using powerful computers and software programs to design the rocket that will carry crew and cargo to space after the space shuttle retires. But those computers will have their work checked the old-fashioned way with the first of several uncrewed demonstration launches beginning in 2009. Ares I-X, the first Ares I test rocket, will lift off from Kennedy Space Center, Fla. in the summer of 2009. It will climb about 25 miles in a two-minute powered test of Ares I first stage performance and its first stage separation and parachute recovery system." Reader coondoggie notes that NASA is also looking further afield, putting out the call for ideas on moon colonization. They'll be offering a variety of grants for projects which facilitate human activities that are "not reliant on Earth's resources."

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[Luke727]

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Barack Obama will gut NASA.

[reporter]

In late 2007, Barack H. Obama proposed suspending the moon-to-Mars space program. Then, in 2008 August, at a town-hall meeting near the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Obama reversed himself and promised to fully fund NASA and its programs.

On November 4, engineers and scientists throughout NASA and academia scratched their collective heads and asked, "Which Obama is the real Obama?"

Now, we have the answer. Obama recently returned to the idea of sacrificing NASA programs in favor of his political agenda.

As Obama dismantles the American space program, perhaps we Americans should look to Japan for leadership in the peaceful development of space.

Re:Barack Obama will gut NASA.

[Anonymous Coward]

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