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What is the name of the new vehicle that NASA hopes will take astronauts back to the moon?
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#69994. Asked by Allergic2Life. (Aug 23 06 9:32 AM)
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gdec1
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Ares 1
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/08/15/nasa.looking.back.ap/index.html
The name "Ares" is from the Greek god of war (Mars in Roman Mythology – as NASA plans to fly manned missions to Mars after 2030), while the "I" refers to the single SRB in the first stage, and as a nod to the Saturn I and Saturn IB rockets used by NASA during the Apollo Program between 1963 and 1975. The larger, unmanned Ares V cargo launch vehicle will be used to launch the Lunar Surface Access Module into a low-Earth orbit for later retrieval by a CEV.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ares_I
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