NASA?splans for the mammoth Ares V rocket could do more than just launch new lunarlanders and cargo to the moon. It could also haul massive telescopes that dwarf theHubble Space Telescope or fling ...

the larger Ares V cargo lifter handled the real heavy lifting. Even from just looking at renderings of what NASA's Cargo Launch Vehicle (CaLV), later named the Ares V, would have looked like ...

NASA's new Ares I-X rocket may be the world's largest booster currently in service or about to fly, but it is no behemoth when compared to giant rockets of the past — and perhaps the future.

"Nobody has been shifted from Ares I to Ares V, and no work has been moved from ... at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, awaiting a test launch planned after Aug. 30. Aerospace workers in ...

"The Ares V that we are planning to build has much in common with the Ares 1, the crew launch vehicle". Ares gets its big two-minute test this week. This is actually a limited experiment ...

NASA has detailed its plans to spend at least $68 million until 2013 on the development of the largest rocket ever, its proposed Ares V cargo launch vehicle (CaLV) that will send the USA back to ...

NASA has dropped the Ares V cargo launch vehicle (CaLV) and Altair lunar lander from its Constellation programme's Exploration ground launch services (EGLS) request for proposals citing ...

NASA will launch two rockets -- not one as they did in the Apollo days, when man first landed on the moon. The Ares V rocket will take a lunar landing vehicle into Earth orbit, and another will ...

Dubbed the "first flight of a new era," thesymbolic nature of the Ares I-X launch has not escaped ... rivaled only by the U.S. Saturn V and SovietN-1 moon boosters last flown in the 1970s.

Increasing confidence in the technology has led to consideration for the first time of composites for manned space flight, including the Ares V launch vehicle. Optimization software permits designers ...

Two 5 1/2-segment solid rocket boosters derived from the current four-segment versions that launch NASA space shuttles will help Ares V haul payloads weighing nearly 396,000 pounds (180,000 kg ...