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The start of a new NASA missile has postponed. / October 28, 2009 /

It is planned that rocket height of 100 meters will rise to the boundary of outer space. As part of the flight, which will last about two minutes, the Earth should be lowered a model of the new spacecraft Orion. And the rocket and spacecraft developed by NASA in the program "Constellation» (Constellation). It is assumed that the new space vehicles will have to deliver astronauts into Earth orbit and beyond — to the moon (and very long term and Mars).

Due to financial constraints, the functionality of the ship have been cut. In addition, a special commission, analyze the performance of the agency, advised the engineers to stay at an intermediate version of «Eres» (originally assumed that in the line of rockets will be heavy and light models). Ares-IX »- a suborbital version of the light carrier rocket Ares-I».

Developing rockets almost from the beginning was associated with difficulties. Among other things, it was found that vibration in the first minutes of launch missiles can damage equipment and present danger to the lives of astronauts.

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