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Old November 1st 13, 05:48 PM posted to sci.space.history
Jeff Findley[_2_]
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Default The Ares 1-X File

In article , bthorn64
@suddenlink.net says...

On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 17:05:20 -0400, Jeff Findley
wrote:


This document (APO-1041) does not appear to be (currently) available on
the NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), even though a search for "Ares
I-X" turns up 1,578 documents (plenty of reading there).

I'm not sure if you could find this document (APO-1041) by other means
(e.g. FOIA request).

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/FOIA/

My best guess is that this document might be considered proprietary data
(since this was a test by a contractor), so it might never be publicly
available.


Or it might have been ITAR'd by the crusading anti-China Congressman
who got NTRS taken down for months on-end.


Also a possibility. You know those huge SRB's look an awful lot like
big missiles. :-P

My guess is that this document won't see the light of day.

Jeff
--
"the perennial claim that hypersonic airbreathing propulsion would
magically make space launch cheaper is nonsense -- LOX is much cheaper
than advanced airbreathing engines, and so are the tanks to put it in
and the extra thrust to carry it." - Henry Spencer