The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.

— Anaxagoras 428 BC

Giant Rockets from NASA in our future

By myamiphil at Wed, 01/14/2009 - 11:15am

 

 

From the days of our previous moon landings, we felt nothing could be larger than the Saturn V rocket, hurling the Lunar Lander and appendages towards the moon.

We then create a fabulous space telescope, "Hubble" and over the following years it has given us stupendous views of the cosmos.

Today the Ares V and its upper shroud can house over 5 school buses, mass-wise it can haul over 16 school buses!!

Comparing it to todays Space Shuttle, the Ares V can haul six times more mass and three times the volume.

With these changes the Ares V will be able to lift aa 8 meter monolithic telescope into space. Hubble is only 2.4 meters!

Consider if a telescope was engineered to unfold! WOW!!! Our little 2.4 meter Hubble has amazed science. What will an 8 meter (or larger) do!

Our space telescope future looks exciting indeed!

View the link!

NASA Article