Ares I is the crew launch vehicle that will be used to deliver the Orion spacecraft to LEO. Ares I is a two-stage rocket, 94 m long and 5.5 m in diameter, that can deliver a 25,000 kg payload to LEO. The Ares I-X test vehicle lifted off on October 28th, 2009, at 15:30 UTC, from Kennedy Space Center, Launch Pad 39B.
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The Ares I-X launch vehicle is now secured on the launch pad. The targeted launch date is October 27, 2009. The launch window is from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM EDT. Ares I-X will liftoff from Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Video of the Ares I motor ground test…
Animation of the Ares I-X test flight…
The Progress 35 cargo resuply vehicle launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome has docked to the International Space Station on Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 9:41 PM EDT.
IRVE, or the Inflatable Re-entry Vehicle Experiment, is a NASA mission which was designed to demonstrate that inflatable structures can be used as heat shields for re-entry vehicles. IRVE launched from NASA\’s Wallops Flight Facility, which is located on Virginia\’s Eastern Shore on the Delmarva Peninsula.
Expedition 20 crew members Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Michael Barratt have returned to Earth. They shared the Soyuz TMA-14 capsule with Canadian spaceflight participant Guy Laliberte.
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LCROSS crashed into the lunar surface on Friday, October 9, 2009, around 11:31 UTC, shortly after the Centaur upper stage of the Atlas V launch vehicle. The impact occurred in the Cabeus crater, which is situated about 100 km from the south pole of the Moon.
In 1999, the Lunar Prospector detected traces of concentrated hydrogen at the lunar poles. The LCROSS mission\’s main goal is to confirm the presence or absence of water in a permanently shadowed crater near a lunar polar region. The LCROSS mission used the Centaur upper stage as a kinetic impactor in order to excavate a crater on the surface of the Moon.
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