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...prototype rocket, which is being designed to replace the aging space shuttle and ignite a new era in human space exploration. Mission managers took quick advantage of changing weather conditions to blast the rocket through a small hole in upper-level clouds that passed briefly over Launch Pad...
...Ares, with its Orion capsule sitting atop a rocket, returns NASA to the Apollo model, which went into retirement in the 1970s having never lost a capsule crew in flight. (The program did have its disasters, though: the Apollo 1 crew perished in a launch-pad fire and Apollo 13 suffered an oxygen-tank explosion and power failure on its way to the moon.) Shaped like the Apollo capsule but three times larger, the Orion can be reused up to 10 times. The Ares I and V, vertically stacked launch vehicles, make use of reusable solid rocket boosters...
...last minute of the first period, LeBlanc maneuvered through the McGill blueliners to launch a shot, which bounced off Morin’s pad. Although the rookie pounced on the rebound and prepared to rip a follow-up, a pair of defenseman double-teamed him and stole the puck...
...first time you have to be prepared for something unexpected,” said Thomas J. LeCompte, the physics coordinator of a key LHC experiment. “This is why I personally don’t do space physics—if your satellite explodes on the launch pad you’re in even worse shape...
...that corner, Tassopoulos made a quick pad save, but the rebound fell right to a Minutewoman. A Crimson defender blocked the ensuing shot with her foot, resulting in a penalty stroke. Potts converted the penalty shot to put UMass...