Ares 1X

[spaceboy7441]

Not shuttle but it is crazy not to mention it.

Ares 1X is scheduled to be rolled out to Pad 39B tonight at 12:01 EST. It will be a 10 hour process. This will be the first new rocket to roll from the VAB t Pad 39 since 1980 when the Shuttle rolled out for the first time. This is history in the making. I for one am so excited. This will be the start of the Constellation Program.
This is also the first unmanned rocket to roll to Pad 39 since the Apollo era.

Check out this live coverage thread on NSF!
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=19156.0

[marvx]

May i correct you. ARES ias rolled to the modified 39B Launchpad.
Additionally ARESrollout will be covered my NASA-TV as well....

A new history in Space Engeneering has finally begun to come to reality

/Marvx

[marvx]

Ares is on half the way to the launch-pad.

Follow the twitter

http://twitter.com/NASA_Ares_I_X

/Marvx

[MDBenson]

http://twitpic.com/m8d2k

Handsome beast, but a bit the old crawler platform looks a bit empty compared to the STS stack :\

[Phixit]

Ares 1-X has passed the Flight Test Readiness Review and is set to launch Tuesday October 27 at 8am. Who else is going to get up and watch it?  

Even though it may never get the chance to carry astronauts it should be a good show!

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2009/10/ares-i-x-passes-ftrr-weekend-simulation-set/

Edited to add link

[spaceboy7441]

Launch is set for tomorrow 10-27-09 at 8am EST if weather cooperates. 

http://nasaspaceflight.com

[davidrobinsonjr]

Even the most diehard shuttle fan (myself included) can't help but feel proud of the subject of this picture. The past and the future. I was around for the birth of Apollo and the Shuttle and now Ares/Orion. It has allways been sad to see a passing like this, but also exciting. Congress and the administration will get their act together and Ares will be as fantastic as everything that has come before. God Speed Ares.


By davidrobinsonjr at 2009-10-26

[JLM]

I can't wait, I'll be watching the launch from school, man why do they always launch important things on a school day?

[spaceboy7441]

I am actually going to just go late to school  Hope they can launch.
I will only be missing 1 or 2 periods so it is all good

[Moonwalker]

Even the most diehard shuttle fan (myself included) can't help but feel proud of the subject of this picture. The past and the future. I was around for the birth of Apollo and the Shuttle and now Ares/Orion. It has allways been sad to see a passing like this, but also exciting. Congress and the administration will get their act together and Ares will be as fantastic as everything that has come before. God Speed Ares.

Well said.

I'm disappointed that I did not witness the greatest era of manned space flight (for now): Apollo. I was born 10 years after Apollo 11. But I'm excited to witness a dramatic change at NASA these days (in a positive sense). I was waiting for something like Ares to happen since I was about 14 years old. Now, 16 years later, the time has come. And I still can't believe what I'm seeing on NASA TV right now. The beautiful AresI, well in fact AresI-X, standing on LC39B at the cape. It still seems somehow unreal but I'm happy that it's quite a real event. Even as a German guy I'm not ashamed to say that I'm proud of the United States and of those great people who stick their smart heads together to do all that amazing stuff for decades. If AresI-X lifts off either today or tomorrow and does what it is supposed to do, I really hope that this will open the eyes of the congress members and Obama, to fund NASA at the highest possible levels and give them what they need to return to the moon and finally go further. 

[Admin]

T-00:04:00 and holding... we are about to see history unfolding. I hope that all of you appreciate the importance and significance of this moment!

/Admin

[Admin]

Launch is "Go" but it is SO FREAKING FUNNY to see that they cannot remove the probe cover. THIS IS HILARIOUS! The least sophisticated item tries to prove how important it is by refusing to be removed.

ROFL!

/Admin

[Moonwalker]

And we have a NO GO because, well, there is a... CARGO SHIP crossing the warning area. This is somehow funny but also annoying at the same time.

Did this ever happen on a Shuttle launch?

[Moonwalker]

And there is the GO finally...

[uri_ba]

yet it is still on the pad..