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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA’s next rockets to reach towards the Moon and Mars finally have a name: Ares. NASA officially unveiled the monikers Ares 1 and Ares 5 for the rockets that will boost future astronauts and heavy cargo into space Friday, one day before the Discovery shuttle is set to launch into orbit.
“There were hundreds of names,” Scott Horowitz, NASA’s associate administrator for exploration, said during the announcement here at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) spaceport, adding that many contenders were rejected. “All the constellations in the sky, all the Greek and Roman gods, all their children, cousins, it went on and on and on.”
But after an in-house study, NASA officially settled on Ares based on the name’s Mars-related connotations, for the two rockets of its Project Constellation spacecraft. The first test flight an Ares booster could by 2009, with a piloted test to follow by 2014, NASA said.
For better or for worse it looks like these things will be going. It's interesting we've downgraded technologically from the Saturn V in certain measurements. There are many directions for this program, the early shuttle and apollo programs made for good science and technology. Late shuttle and international space station? no comment.
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posted 01 July 2006 01:44 PM
