With a fuel importation bill rising to a whopping N300 billion ($2 billion), the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation?s race to outdo the competition has led to the build up of a Petroleum Products Armada of 58 ships anchored on Nigerian territorial waters, reminiscent of the Cement Armada of the late 1970s.
Two days after NASA launched a test model of its Ares 1 rocket, the flight’s mission manager confirmed the first stage descended to the Atlantic Ocean on just one fully functioning parachute, damaging the booster as it splashed into the Atlantic Ocean harder than expected.
Lunar eclipse occurs over the sky of New Delhi May 5, 2004. An unmanned NASA rocket intended to help develop a new space taxi service to the moon streaked into the sky on Wednesday for a brief two-minute test flight.
NASA on Wednesday launched the Ares I-X rocket in Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It’s the first flight test for the agency’s next-generation spacecraft and launch vehicle system. &$ &$NASA on Wednesday launched the Ares I-X rocket in Kennedy Space Center in Florida.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)&$ &$ Rocketing into the Florida sky, the 327-foot rocket thunders away from the 39B launch pad at 11:30 EDT …
Rising into the Florida sky, Nasa’s Ares I-X rocket has finally thundered away from the launch pad today. It marks the first time a new vehicle has launched from the complex since the first space shuttle launch in 1981.
NASA’s new generation of deep-space rockets is a back-to-Apollo design. But will it get enough funding to significantly move exploration forward?
Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) — The world?s largest rocket, designed to launch the replacement for NASA?s space shuttle, blasted off in a flight test from Florida today.
The unmanned Ares I-X made a spectacular debut as it soared into the sky Wednesday. This next generation manned space vehicle is set to be ready in 2015, but some question the future of the program.
An unmanned NASA rocket designed to help develop a new space taxi service to the moon streaked through the sky on a successful two-minute test flight
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — For first time since 1981, the rocket that took off from a launching pad here on Wednesday was not a space shuttle.
With a clearing in a partly cloudy sky, the Ares I-X — a prototype of NASA’s next-generation Ares I rocket — zipped off with a window-rattling roar at 11:30 a.m., heading eastward over the Atlantic Ocean. After rising through blue sky for two minutes, the first stage expended its fuel at an altitude of more than 25 miles, separated and descended into the ocean.
The arc of the dummy second stage continued upward another three miles before plunging back to Earth about 145 miles from the launching pad. The final Ares I rocket is to have a second-stage engine and a crew capsule to carry four astronauts into orbit to the International Space Station. Read more….
