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First Aries I - Orion CEV Suborbital Test Launch

I think it's going to do exactly what they say it's going to do. Sorry, but we're a lot better at rockets now.
 
That is so exciting. I just can't wait to see the Ares V---that is going to be one seriously powerful bitch.
 
Love the name.

I'm totally a shoe in for the 2012 astronaut class, what with all my other Orion time in the logbook.:icon_smil
 
Beans said:
I think it's going to do exactly what they say it's going to do. Sorry, but we're a lot better at rockets now.
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Well-timed post. After the OP, all I could think of was that test-fire scene of "The Right Stuff" where shit just blew up repeatedly, test after test. :D
 
OttoWrote8 said:
Well-timed post. After the OP, all I could think of was that test-fire scene of "The Right Stuff" where shit just blew up repeatedly, test after test. :D
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They did all that just for the movie too.

/worried about some people's historical frame of reference sometimes.
 
OttoWrote8 said:
Pretty sure they blew up a LOT of rockets before they got it to "work".
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All in front of the TV cameras too. The footage of the rockets blowing up in The Right Stuff was all real......in case anyone was wondering.
 
Flash said:
It's solid fuel, not likely. It would just burn, a lot.
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A solid-fuel rocket can go boom. The channel through the middle of the doughnut-shaped segments is very carefully designed to give the right surface area for the right burn rate. If the slightest crack develops, the surface area and then the burn rate can go out of control. If the resulting pressure increase is more than the rocket's housing can handle, then boom. You can try it w/ a model rocket motor. Just whack the side of the motor w/ a hammer before you rig it up. It doesn't like it when you do that.
 
Here's kind of a cool shot of Aries and the Shuttle on launch pads.

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