Sunday, October 26, 2008

Problems with the Ares I

The replacement of the space shuttle is in trouble according to several sources.  The Orlando Sentinel had a very critical piece on the rocket.  The webiste Hyperbola (one of my favorites) released this analysis video a while back.  The rocket takes off fine, but check out all the bending that goes on later in the flight.  

As an engineer I am all to familiar with unexpected problems.  With the internet NASA has a lot of armchair critics so I won't join in, but it will be interesting to see what happens.

Check out the video below from the Hyperbola blog...

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