Ares: NASA's New Rockets Get Names (no more CLV and CaLV)

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In case you missed it (I had), NASA has named the CLV and CaLV the "Ares I" and "Ares V". A logo, fact sheets, short video, and brief explanation can be found at:<br /><br />http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/exploration/spacecraft/ares_naming.html<br /><blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>...<br />"It's appropriate that we named these vehicles Ares, which is a pseudonym for Mars," said Scott Horowitz, associate administrator for NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, Washington. "We honor the past with the number designations and salute the future with a name that resonates with NASA's exploration mission." <br /><br />The "I and V" designations pay homage to the Apollo program's Saturn I and Saturn V rockets, the first large U.S. space vehicles conceived and developed specifically for human spaceflight.<br />...<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br />Go Ares !!
 
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By the way, NASA has a pretty impressive Quicktime video of their plan to reach the Moon and return. (warning: the Javascript from NASA's web site froze my Safari browser, so I poke around to find just the Quicktime file.) Here is the movie:<br /><br /><font color="yellow"><b>WARNING:</b></font>ven this link has been freezing up my Safari browser today. If you are on a Mac, use Firefox.<br /><br />http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/cev/CEVedit2.mov<br /><br />Now if someone could add some classical music to this (e.g., like 2001), it would be really cool.
 
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