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The American space agency NASA has recently released a few pictures of the amazing new rocket that it is preparing for a first test flight later this year. The images reveal that astounding ARES I-X delivery system taking shape in the Vehicle Assembly Building, at the Kennedy Space Center, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The tall and skinny rocket is now almost half completed, after new pieces were brought in and attached to the existing ones last week, Wired reports. The ARES delivery systems I, IV and V are all part of NASA's Project Constellation, which was designed as a replacement for the Shuttle Program. With the current orbiter fleet scheduled to be withdrawn from active duty by the end of 2010, the pressure is high on the agency to come up with the new spacecraft, ARES I, as soon as possible. However, that seems unlikely to happen by the 2015 deadline, considering the numerous delays and cost overruns the project has been plagued with. In the latest such development, !
the first test flight of the ARES I rocket has been pushed back another two months. “Yesterday, yet another portion of the Ares I-X rocket was stacked on the Mobile Launch Platform in Kennedy's Vehicle Assembly Building. Now that super stack 1 is up and on, the 327-foot rocket is more than half way assembled and the team is getting excited as ...
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