Interestingly, Hornblower, White Sands operates a hypervelocity testing lab, in which light gas gun projectiles reach velocities of 7.5 km/s (16,800 mph) over a length of about 1 m.

The high-speed cameras used to record the events range up to 200 million frames per second.

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If I set the budget, we'd have Ares and more. Unfortunately, I don't set the budget, and Ares is just too expensive and too far out for us to accomplish our goals within the budget we were given.

If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.