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Astronauts, Constellation, Kennedy Space Center, Missions, Moon, NASA, Solar System, Space Exploration, Space Launch System (SLS)

Mobile Launcher Upgraded to Launch NASA’s Mammoth ‘Journey to Mars’ Rocket

29 Sep , 2015 by Ken Kremer

Looking up from beneath the enlarged exhaust hole of the Mobile Launcher to the 380 foot-tall tower astronauts will ascend as their gateway for missions to the Moon, Asteroids and Mars. The ML will support NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft during Exploration Mission-1 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: Ken […]

Ares 1, Constellation, EM-1, humans to Mars, Journey to Mars, kennedy space center, mars red planet, Mobile Launcher, NASA, Orion, Orion crew module, Orion EM-1, pad 39B, red planet, RS-25, SLC-39B, SLS, SLS Mobile Launcher, Space Launch System (SLS)

Commercial Space, Space Exploration, Space Flight, Space Tourism

Ares-1 Rocket Could Be Re-born as “Liberty”

8 Feb , 2011 by Nancy Atkinson

[/caption] An idea too good to die, or a case of recycle, reuse, reduce? Two rocket companies are joining forces to use part of the Ares-1 rocket and combine it with elements of the Ariane 5 launcher to create a new launch system called Liberty that they say will “close the US human spaceflight gap.” […]

Ares 1, Ariane 5 rocket, Astrium, ATK, Commercial Space

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