NASA Space Shuttle Missions

The Ares 1-X rocket is poised for launch on pad 39B at Cape ...
Reuters
Tue Oct 27, 8:31 AM
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The Ares 1-X rocket is poised for launch on pad 39B at Cape Canaveral, Florida, October 27, 2009. NASA has spent nearly four years and $350 million on the rocket which is intended to position crews in Earth orbit for transport to the moon and serve as a taxi for the International Space Station.

REUTERS/Scott Audette (UNITED STATES TRANSPORT SCI TECH)

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