If Ares I and Ares V are shelved for the derivative Ares V lite design, the flight gap will extend even longer, perhaps to 2019, Hanley said, as NASA switches to the as-yet-undesigned rocket.

Marshall Space Flight Center engineers have been developing the Ares I rocket for over four years now. After $3 billion spent, some believe a White House independent review board will force a ...

The Ares I-X weighs 1.8 million pounds, slightly less than the full Ares I rocket. That last Saturn V was a modified version that launched NASA's Skylab space station.

"NASA's new Ares V rocket is going tocompletely change the rules of the game." The roomy 33-foot (10-meter)payload shroud for Ares V allows extra space for space telescopes with largermain mirrors.

WASHINGTON — The crew of NASA’s newest spacecraft “will not survive” an explosion of the Ares I rocket within the first minute of launch because blazing chunks of solid-rocket fuel would ...

Had Ares V flown with four RS-68Bs, it stood a chance of surpassing the thrust figures generated even by the SLS. Combined with 3.4 million lbs (15,000 kN) ...

Ares V "carryingcosts" of up to $3.5 billion would result from stalling development offive-segment solid rocket boosters and a second stage engine required for theAres I and Ares V.

NASA rolled out its first new space craft in about three decades early Tuesday morning, a towering, spindly rocket called the Ares I-X. The Ares is slated for an Oct. 27 test flight, the ...

Design of the Ares V components has been facilitated by Collier Research, using its HyperSizer software. First developed in the early 1990s at NASA’s Langley Research Center (Hampton, Va.), HyperSizer ...

The Ares I and V, on the other hand, will require two new sets of factories and launchpads. Metschan calculates Jupiter Direct's on-the-ground operating cost savings alone at $2 billion a year.

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NASA's plans for the mammoth Ares V rocket could do more than just launch new lunar landers and cargo to the moon. It could also haul massive telescopes that dwarf the Hubble Space Telescope or ...