Apr 182010
A graphic representation from a NASA presentation of just how big the Ares V payload shroud would have been:
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A graphic representation from a NASA presentation of just how big the Ares V payload shroud would have been:
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I can’t quite pick out why, but I find the school bus to be totally inappropriate. I suggest Apollo capsules.
> I find the school bus to be totally inappropriate.
1) If you want to get across the impression of scale, you have to use something that people have a good grasp of the scale *of.* Everybody knows a school bus. Few know the Apollo capsule well enough to know how big they are.
2) Insert joke re: “finally a busing program I can get behind.”
Unhappily Obama put an end to this project.
Moon or Mars for the Americans, maybe in 2050 :-((((
Actually ARES-V wasn’t so much “cancled” as wasn’t getting anywhere…
Scott? I’m like really confused as to how many segments those SRBs have… Counting supposed ‘seperation’ lines for segments I come up with 10??!!?? Last I’d heard ARES-V was baselined at 5.5 to 6 segments at a minimum.
I seemed to have missed it but it was pointed out to me that the FY-2010 budget had no funding for the ARES-1 second stage or engine work, anyone confirm/deny this?
Randy
I hope it will still be built at one point.
We’re unlikely to see Ares V as depicted above, but Heavy Lift is still coming. Managed intelligently, it will get here sooner than Ares V would have under Constellation.