{"id":526,"date":"2009-10-20T03:36:20","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T08:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/?p=526"},"modified":"2022-09-05T20:03:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T00:03:38","slug":"ares-i-x-test-flight-rolls-out-to-the-launch-pad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/ares-i-x-test-flight-rolls-out-to-the-launch-pad\/","title":{"rendered":"Ares I-X test flight rolls out to the launch pad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>History was made tonight and I was there. It was pretty cool to witness the rollout of the Ares I-X test flight rocket first hand. Ares I is designed to replace the Shuttle for getting astronauts into orbit. Enough talk &#8230; here are the photos that I took and also a short edited video (click for larger versions of the photos):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/photos-new\/index.php\/SpacePhotos\/01-AresIX-rollout\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/photos-new\/var\/resizes\/SpacePhotos\/01-AresIX-rollout.jpg?m=1440971241\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is the employee signature banner for Ares I-X.\u00a0 Each flight gets a banner that is displayed along with the vehicle and these banners are signed by KSC employees who have worked on that mission.\u00a0 I worked on the ground control system for the Ares I-X mission, so I made sure I signed this banner.\u00a0 I wonder if you can find my signature&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/photos-new\/index.php\/SpacePhotos\/02-AresIX-rollout\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/photos-new\/var\/resizes\/SpacePhotos\/02-AresIX-rollout.jpg?m=1440971248\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Can you find my signature now?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/photos-new\/index.php\/SpacePhotos\/10-CloseupOfBanner\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/photos-new\/var\/resizes\/SpacePhotos\/10-CloseupOfBanner.jpg?m=1440971252\" width=\"640\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">How about now?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/photos-new\/index.php\/SpacePhotos\/03-AresIX-rollout\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/photos-new\/var\/resizes\/SpacePhotos\/03-AresIX-rollout.jpg?m=1440971259\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Ares I-X rocket doesn&#8217;t look terribly huge inside the massive Vehicle Assembly Building, but it&#8217;s nearly as tall as the Saturn V rockets that we used to go to the moon during the Apollo program.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/photos-new\/index.php\/SpacePhotos\/04-AresIX-rollout\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/photos-new\/var\/resizes\/SpacePhotos\/04-AresIX-rollout.jpg?m=1440971267\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Excitement is in the air as the new big rocket emerges from the VAB.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/photos-new\/index.php\/SpacePhotos\/05-AresIX-rollout\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/photos-new\/var\/resizes\/SpacePhotos\/05-AresIX-rollout.jpg?m=1440971274\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Isn&#8217;t she big and beautiful!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/photos-new\/index.php\/SpacePhotos\/06-AresIX-rollout\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/photos-new\/var\/resizes\/SpacePhotos\/06-AresIX-rollout.jpg?m=1440971280\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Not symmetrical by design.\u00a0 We&#8217;re re-using a Shuttle mobile launcher platform for this flight, which has two holes for solid rocket booster exhaust.\u00a0 So we mounted the Ares I-X rocket over one of the two SRB holes in the platform.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/photos-new\/index.php\/SpacePhotos\/07-AresIX-rollout\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/photos-new\/var\/resizes\/SpacePhotos\/07-AresIX-rollout.jpg?m=1440971287\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Glowing in the spotlights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/photos-new\/index.php\/SpacePhotos\/08-AresIX-rollout\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/photos-new\/var\/resizes\/SpacePhotos\/08-AresIX-rollout.jpg?m=1440971295\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The spotlights were very bat-symbol-like.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t get a good photo of it, but there was enough moisture in the air to clearly see the rocket&#8217;s silhouette projected big and bold up into the sky.\u00a0 It was quite impressive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/photos-new\/index.php\/SpacePhotos\/09-AresIX-rollout\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/photos-new\/var\/resizes\/SpacePhotos\/09-AresIX-rollout.jpg?m=1440971301\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Obligatory photo of me standing in front of the rocket for the scrapbook.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here is the video I took:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ares I-X test flight rocket rollout to launch pad\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OHEla1t0byQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History was made tonight and I was there. It was pretty cool to witness the rollout of the Ares I-X test flight rocket first hand. Ares I is designed to replace the Shuttle for getting astronauts into orbit. Enough talk &#8230; here are the photos that I took and also a short edited video (click [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[108],"tags":[34,31,36,278,11,361],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4098,"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions\/4098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}