Ares’ future: What does ITT know?

by Rob Coppinger | Mar 30, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, NASA | 3 comments

What does ITT know? Is Ares I crew launch vehicle going to get solid rocket boosters? I am guessing that this is an Exploration Systems Architecture Study trade space reject – this blog post is just a bit of fun I haven’t got the time to actually check it

But at least it isn’t an EELV, I’m not sure that would be good customer relations even now Michael Griffin is no longer NASA administrator – twice as safe remember!

Go through to the extended portion of this blog post to see a larger version of the portion of the picture above that features the Ares I-like rocket

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