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Ares I-X Liftoff Set For Tomorrow Morning

Sunset at Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida finds the Ares I-X rocket awaiting the approaching liftoff of its flight test. Image credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
by Staff Writers
 Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Oct 27, 2009
 The Ares I-X flight test vehicle is poised on Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39B and is ready to fly. The launch team reports no issues with the 327-foot rocket, the world's largest at present.

The only spoiler when tomorrow morning's launch window opens at 8 a.m. EDT might be the weather. Currently, there only is a 40 percent chance of favorable weather during the window, which extends until noon.

The team will have the same four-hour window for a launch attempt on Wednesday if Tuesday's liftoff is scrubbed, and Wednesday's weather shows a slight improvement to 60 percent "go."

The launch team of approximately 30 members will have their "call to stations" at 12:30 a.m., leading into the beginning of the seven-hour countdown at 1 a.m.

NASA's Launch Blog of the Ares I-X launch begins tomorrow at 5 a.m. EDT.

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ROCKET SCIENCE
NASA is 'go' for crucial rocket test
 Washington (AFP) Oct 25, 2009
 NASA is set to blast off a prototype rocket on Tuesday that carries hopes of returning humans to the Moon, and for the first time to Mars, despite deep uncertainty about the program's future. The space agency said everything is in order for Tuesday's two-minute, 30-second test of the Ares I-X rocket, a first look at the launch vehicle designed to replace NASA's aging space shuttle fleet. ... read more






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