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Archive Home > 2009 > October > 29 > NASA’s moon rocket makes first test flight

NASA’s moon rocket makes first test flight

Ares I-X is intended to replace space shuttles, ferry astronauts to the moon and beyond

By Kenneth Chang / The Bulletin
October 29, 2009

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — For first time since 1981, the rocket that took off from a launching pad here on Wednesday was not a space shuttle.

With a clearing in a partly cloudy sky, the Ares I-X — a prototype of NASA’s next-generation Ares I rocket — zipped off at 11:30 a.m., heading east....

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