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Default NYT story with interactive graphics on Ares, Altair and Orion
And a photo slide show as well.

The Long Countdown: The Fight Over NASA’s Future

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NASA has named the rocket Ares I, as in the god of war — and its life has been a battle from the start.

Ares I is part of a new system of spacecraft being designed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to replace the nation’s aging space shuttles. The Ares I and its Orion capsule, along with a companion heavy-lift rocket known as the Ares V, are meant for travel to the Moon and beyond.

Technical troubles have dogged the design process for the Ares I, the first of the rockets scheduled to be built, with attendant delays and growing costs. And in an age of always-on communication, instant messages and blogs, internal debate that once might have been part of a cloistered process has spilled into public view.
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I saw that yesterday- AWESOME! I'm probably going to be using it a lot with my Into the Cosmos story.
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The DIRECT option (a rebirth of the Magnum-class sub-HLLV) is on the cover of the latest Popular Mechanics.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/scie...e/4298615.html
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