Re: Commercial Ares I?!

On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:47:48 -0500, Pat Flannery <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=busav&id=news/ATK04098.xml&show=us
Okay, that makes Atlas V, Delta IV, and Ares I...three rockets to do one
job, with NASA funding the development of a competitor to commercial
vehicles that were partly funded by the Air Force and NRO.
If nothing else, I can see my speculation about that "Ares*" name from a
couple of years back was correct; it might well indeed having a military
mission.


Except that the Altas and Deltas are also used for military,
commercial, and NASA missions. Why shouldn't Ares have the same mix?

I think the name is just an hommage to the Saturn seris, with Ares 1
taking the place of Saturn 1B. Big Deal.




*Greek god of war.

Pat


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