| AREA X-1 is the premiere rocket replacement for the Shuttle. It will be used to lift astronauts to low Earth Orbit. A heavy lift version of the ARES is the ARES V. It will use revamped Apollo technology combined with a few things learned since our last Moon missions in the 1970's. | The 2 photos below are NASA panels from their Quarterly Report on ARES X-1, available on CD. The panels themselves are not copyright protected but our page content is. |
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| Isn't it a beautiful spaceship? Unfortunately, NASA has no plans to take a human to Mars anytime soon. In fact, the rehearsal mission activity can't start before 2018 (no Lunar Lander available), and a Mars manned mission may not occur until 2025-2030 on this timetable above. It looks like the projected date for a manned Mars Landing has been left open, because by 2025 it looks like they are still tied up with Lunar activities. What it looks like is a decade or more of Lunar activity, leading up to a Mars Mission. Budgets being what they are, they can't do both at the same time, unless something changes. If the ARES V program could be speeded up by 5-10 years instead of a 2018-20 maiden flight, we could see a manned mission to Mars in 2020, and a Moon Landing in 2015, with the same hardware. With lobbying, your help, this timetable could change during the next administration in 2008. - Tom |
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