NASA is targeting Tuesday, Oct. 27, for the flight test of the Ares I-X rocket, pending successful testing and data verification.
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The anonymous author of the RocketsandSuch blog gives an account of a visit on Thursday to Louisiana by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Deputy Administrator Lori Garver that, if accurate, points to stunning changes for future human spaceflight.
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In preparation for NASA’s first Ares I-X test flight in August, engineers from Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne have finished pressurizing and loading 1,423 pounds of propellants into heritage hardware from the Peacekeeper missile system that will be used to help return humans to the moon by 2020.