NASA's Ares Program Takes Flight

This morning, NASA launched a test rocket from the Kennedy Space center in Cape Canaveral, Florida to see how the new design of rocket that is set up to be the replacement of the space shuttles will work. The aging shuttles have been in and out of orbit many times, and are growing increasingly more obsolete, and a time for change had come. NASA's new Ares design is of a rocket much taller and thinner than the previously used space shuttles, and the test today proved this new model to be a great success.

Unfortunately, NASA doesn't predict this model to be approved and launching with human occupants until 2015, a good amount of time from now, but by then NASA will also be working on building rockets meant for much longer spaceflight, such as traveling to the moon and beyond. But for now the focus of our nation's space program is the Ares project.