Ares Rocket

It is going to be first time in years; a rocket rather than a space shuttle is invading launch pad 39-B in Florida, at the Kennedy Space Center.

The Ares 1-X is a skinny, smooth, 325-feet test rocket that is planned to takeoff between 8 a.m. and 12 at noon. It is a trial that could be persuasive and effective in influencing NASA’s succeeding-generation astronomical vehicle. Though NASA is presenting this test launch as “the first flight of an innovative epoch,” the prospect and future of the space program is under assessment by the Obama management.

The structure plan, of which Ares 1-X is a part, has been evolving new and modern vehicles that would change the space aircraft. The former space shuttle is planned to fly in fall 2010.

If this new Plan moves forward, the Orion capsule above the Ares rocket will not be set to take cosmonauts into space up to at least 2015, making an interruption of at least 5 years in which there is no chance for US to put humans in orbit except by joining a ride with the Russians.

While the Obama administration anticipates the future, the spaces travel in their own space rocket and they are going to expect that the model rocket will be the next coevals of US spacecraft, and Tuesday’s test flight is intended to provide essential data to engineers in fine-tuning its project and design.

But bad weather conditions could prevent the launch. The forecast Tuesday displays only 35 % chance of positive and favorable weather, although NASA assumed it needs just fifteen minutes of good weather condition to launch.

If wretched weather scuttles the launch, the upcoming test flight will be on Wednesday, when the forecast is favorable for at least 6o%.

The flight will be postponed up to next month if bad weather continues.