Amid the large crowd at the Banana Creek VIP site, dominated by firststage workers from the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, other NASA space agency officials and invited onlookers, the Ares 1-x demonstrator took roaring to the sky over Kennedy Space Center this week. Here is the official NASA video of "testing concepts for [a] new rocket design."
Credit must be given to the Ares 1x launch team for keeping the booster green for launch for the 4-hr. each, two-day window waiting the right upper atmospheric conditions with the count holding at 4-minutes time and again while astronauts flew jets checking the conditions high above the launch pad. There was some crowd frustration with the busy flight weather officer as the dynamic conditions made weather a green and red again situation over and over again numerous times nearly 7.5 hours of the combined 8-hours. But finally, in the last thirty minutes of the last window of the two-day opportunity, the Ares 1x flew [music].
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