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Space Travel Editorial Team

Editorial Team

The Space Travel Editorial Team produces Space Travel's coverage of human spaceflight and access to space. We report on launch, crewed missions and space tourism, and the propulsion, vehicles and human factors of getting people to space. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Space Travel takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

Legacy Reports

First Test Of Welding Tool For Ares I Upper Stage

Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 14, 2008 - NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, in Huntsville, Ala., engineers made the first official weld with tools that will enable development of the upper stage of the Ares I rocket. For this historic moment, the engineers used tools that soon will aid in manufacture of major test hardware for the Ares I rocket, slated to carry human missions back to the moon, on to Mars and out into the solar system in coming decades.

Aug 14, 2008