Comments on: Ares I-X Launch Image Gallery

By: Bravehart

Bravehart — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:42:01 +0000

How will a human survive this acceleration?
A fighter pilot is protected for this, but a
space crew? Will a spacesuit do?

vino — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:30:43 +0000

Sili, lets hope it is not years….

Sili — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:56:05 +0000

Managed to catch it online yesterday – just before I woulda got tired of waiting.

Gorgeous!

Such a pity we'll have to wait years to see more (if we'll ever see it again at all).

Nancy Atkinson — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:45:49 +0000

andre- You're right! The post has been updated.

andre.izecson — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:32:04 +0000

I don't want to sound pedantic, but that is not a bow shock, it is a Prandtl-Glauert singularity following an oblique shock.

bow shocks form in front of blunt bodies, but Ares I can hardly be called blunt!