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  2. Ares I-X - Wikipedia

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    Ares I-X was the first-stage prototype and design concept demonstrator of Ares I, a launch system for human spaceflight developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Ares I-X was successfully launched on October 28, 2009. [1] [2] The project cost was $445 million. [3] It was the final launch from LC-39B until Artemis 1 ...

  3. List of Constellation missions - Wikipedia

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    Test launches Order Date Year Mission Launch Vehicle Duration Crew Size Launch Pad Note 1 October 28 2009: Ares I-X: Ares I-X ~2 min. Uncrewed: 39B: Atmospheric test of the first stage of the Ares I-X launcher with four active SRM segments and an inert fifth segment and upper stage.

  4. Ares I - Wikipedia

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    Mobile Launcher-1 for Ares I at east park site Originally scheduled for first test flights in 2011, the independent analysis by the Augustine Commission found in late 2009 that due to technical and financial problems Ares I was not likely to have had its first crewed launch until 2017–2019 under the current budget, or late 2016 with an ...

  5. Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 - Wikipedia

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    Prior to Ares I-X, the last Shuttle launch from pad 39B was the nighttime launch of STS-116 on December 9, 2006. To support the final Shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope STS-125 launched from pad 39A in May 2009, Endeavour was placed on 39B if needed to launch the STS-400 rescue mission.

  6. Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B - Wikipedia

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    With the advent of the Space Shuttle program in the early 1980s, the original structure of the launch pads were remodeled for the needs of the Space Shuttle.Pad 39A hosted all Space Shuttle launches until January 1986, when Space Shuttle Challenger would become the first to launch from pad 39B during the ill-fated STS-51-L mission, which ended with the destruction of Challenger and the death ...

  7. List of Cape Canaveral and Merritt Island launch sites

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    Kennedy Space Center, operated by NASA, has two launch complexes on Merritt Island comprising four pads—two active, one under lease, and one inactive.From 1967 to 1975, it was the site of 13 Saturn V launches, three crewed Skylab flights and the Apollo–Soyuz; all Space Shuttle flights from 1981 to 2011, and one Ares 1-X flight in 2009.

  8. Shuttle-derived vehicle - Wikipedia

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    Ares V Lite was an alternative launch vehicle for NASA's Constellation program suggested by the Augustine Commission. Ares V Lite was a scaled down Ares V. [27] [28] It would have used five RS-68 engines and two five-segment SRBs and have had a low Earth orbit payload of approximately 140 tonnes (310,000 lb). [29]

  9. File:Ares I-X launch.ogv - Wikipedia

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    Ares_I-X_launch.ogv (Ogg multiplexed audio/video file, Theora/Vorbis, length 2 min 40 s, 320 × 240 pixels, 239 kbps overall, file size: 4.54 MB) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.