stoolpigeon writes "Bit by bit, the new rocket ship that is supposed to blast America into the second Space Age and return astronauts to the moon appears to be coming undone. First was the discovery that it lacked sufficient power to lift astronauts in a state-of-the-art capsule into orbit. Then engineers found out that it might vibrate like a giant tuning fork, shaking its crew to death. Now, in the latest setback to the Ares I, computer models show the ship could crash into its launch tower during liftoff. An Orlando Sentinel article about the Ares program quotes an unidentified NASA employee as saying, "I get the impression that things are quickly going from bad to worse to unrecoverable."" Link to Original Source
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