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Ares I Rocket Test Flight Facing Five Week Delay
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - The first test flight of NASA's new ARES I
launch vehicle faces a five-week slip, constellation program officals said today. Delays in the production of new external tanks for the space shuttle will likely force a delay in the upcoming Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission and cause a domino effect on preparations for the Ares I-X flight currently targeted for next April. News of the potential schedule slip came Monday during a teleconference with project managers in NASA's Project constellation office. The Ares I-X test flight is currently targeted to blastoff from Kennedy Space Center's Launch complex 39-B around April 15, 2009. The launch pad hasn't been used since Discovery's STS-116 launch in December, 2006. No more space shuttle launches are scheduled to take place from the pad, but it can't be modified to accommodate the Ares I-X flight until after space shuttle Atlantis mission to service Hubble later this year. Before the launch pad can be handed over to Constellation, the shuttle program will require its availability to mount a mission to rescue the crew of Atlantis should that orbiter become disabled or experience serious damage that would prevent a safe re-entry. The full article and audio is available online he http://www.spacearium.com/article.ph...80518165726838 |
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