| Launch Control Center's Firing Room 1 |
Date: September 27, 2009
Duration: 18 min 9 sec
This ceremony held Sept. 25 inside Kennedy Space Center's Firing Room 1 officially turned over the site from the space shuttle program to the Constellation program. The room will be used for Ares 1-X. Cutting the ribbon was former astronaut Bob Crippen.
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| Ares 1-X: Time-lapse of rocket's assembly |
Date: September 14, 2009
Duration: 5 min 46 sec
This time-lapse movie captured over the course of several months shows the various segments and pieces of the Ares 1-X test rocket arriving in Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building and being put together. |  |
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| Ares 1-X: Powering up the rocket |
Date: September 11, 2009
Duration: 5 min 5 sec
The fully assembled Ares 1-X flight test rocket is powered up for integrated testing as seen in this footage shot both inside the Launch Control Center and the Vehicle Assembly Building. |  |
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| Ares 1-X: Rocket stabilizing arms installed at launch pad 39B |
Date: September 8, 2009
Duration: 11 min 16 sec
The Vehicle Stabilization System was constructed to secure the Ares 1-X test rocket during its stay at launch pad 39B. This footage shows the two arms of the system being installed on the pad's umbilical tower. |  |
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| Ares 1-X: The launch control rooms |
Date: September 2, 2009
Duration: 4 min 8 sec
The Ares 1-X test flight will be overseen from Firing Room 1 of the Complex 39 Launch Control Center at Kennedy Space Center and the Mission Directors Center in Hangar AE at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. |  |
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| Ares 1-X: A little pushing and shoving |
Date: August 30, 2009
Duration: 2 min 29 sec
As part of the "modal testing" of the fully assembled Ares 1-X, technicians use special tools and even themselves to induce swaying and motion into the rocket. |  |
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| Ares 1-X: Test flight animation |
Date: August 14, 2009
Duration: 3 min 14 sec
This animation previews the launch of Ares 1-X, a test rocket for NASA's proposed new vehicle to carry the Orion crew capsule into orbit. The test uses a solid-propellant first stage with a simulator upper stage and capsule. |  |
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| Ares 1-X: Orion capsule mockup |
Date: August 13, 2009
Duration: 7 min 26 sec
The top of Ares 1-X is placed atop the rocket to complete the assembly process by finishing the Upper Stage Simulator and the aerodynamic shape for the Orion capsule. |  |
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| Ares 1-X: A super stack |
Date: August 8, 2009
Duration: 10 min 17 sec
A larger section of the multi-piece Upper Stage Simulator for the Ares 1-X flight test rocket is hoisted into High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building for stacking. |  |
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| Ares 1-X: Assembling the upper stage |
Date: August 4, 2009
Duration: 4 min 43 sec
The next section of the multi-piece Upper Stage Simulator for the Ares 1-X flight test rocket is hoisted from High Bay 4 to High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building for stacking. |  |
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| Ares 1-X: Forward segment of SRB |
Date: July 17, 2009
Duration: 9 min 21 sec
What is known as the forward segment of the solid rocket booster for the Ares 1-X flight test rocket's first stage is lifted from the transfer aisle to High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building for stacking. |  |
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| Ares 1-X: The next segment of SRB |
Date: July 10, 2009
Duration: 5 min 23 sec
The aft center segment of the Ares 1-X flight test rocket's first stage is lifted from the transfer aisle to High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building for stacking. |  |
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| Ares 1-X: First stage stacking begins |
Date: July 9, 2009
Duration: 9 min 52 sec
The bottem segment of the solid rocket booster to form the Ares 1-X rocket's first stage is moved into the Vehicle Assembly Building and hoisted atop the mobile launcher platform in High Bay 3. |  |
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| Ares 1-X: Prepping for stacking |
Date: July 7, 2009
Duration: 5 min 36 sec
In High Bay 4 of the Vehicle Assembly Building, the dummy fifth segment of the first stage and the frustrum are put together in preparation for mating to the rocket. |  |
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| Ares 1-X: Astronaut walkway removed from launch pad 39B |
Date: June 20, 2009
Duration: 3 min 9 sec
The Orbiter Access Arm used by space shuttle astronauts to walk from the launch pad 39B tower to the spacecraft for boarding is removed from launch pad 39B during the Ares 1-X modifications. |  |
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| Ares 1-X: Beanie cap removed from launch pad 39B |
Date: June 4, 2009
Duration: 8 min 59 sec
The gaseous oxygen vent hood, or beanie cap, that was used during space shuttle launches to route vapors away from the top of the external tank is removed from launch pad 39B during the Ares 1-X modifications. |  |
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| Constellation progress report |
Date: April 14, 2009
Duration: 8 min 25 sec
This movie offers an snapshot from early 2009 of NASA's Constellation program development that will field the new Ares rockets and Orion spacecraft to carry humans into space after retirement of the shuttles. |  |
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| Ares 1-X: Launch pad 39B's old lightning mast pulled down |
Date: March 25, 2009
Duration: 6 min 23 sec
The existing lightning protection rod mounted atop the launch pad 39B fixed service structure from the space shuttle era is removed as part of the modification work for Ares 1-X. |  |
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| Ares 1-X: New lightning towers completed |
Date: February 14, 2009
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Giant new lightning towers have been built around Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39B, each measuring nearly 600 feet tall to protect the future Ares rockets while sitting on the seaside complex. |  |
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