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Flight kit for a test flight

October 26, 2009 / 12:25 p.m. CT (1725 GMT) Though Ares I-X has no crew onboard, nor an official payload (other than the 700+ sensors recording data during the 28-mile high suborbital flight) that has not stopped NASA and ATK, the prime contractor,... Full Article at collectSPACE

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  1. In this image made from video and released by NASA, astronaut Robert Satcher Jr. is seen, top center, taking photographs of the earth after working on a oxygen tank near the International Space Station, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009.
  2. CAPE CANAVERAL, FL - NOVEMBER 16: NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-129 lifts off of launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center November 16, 2009 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The astronauts are scheduled for an 11 day mission to deliver vital equipment and supplies to the International Space Station.
  3. NASA's new Ares 1-X test vehicle on October 28, 2009 heads into the sky from Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39-B in Florida. NASA has designed the Ares to be the replacement to the aging space shuttle fleet.
  4. CAPE CANAVERAL, FL - OCTOBER 28: NASA's Ares 1-X test rocket lifs off from launch pad 39-b at the Kennedy Space Center October 28, 2009 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA has designed the Ares to be the replacement to the aging space shuttle fleet.
  5. CAPE CANAVERAL, FL - OCTOBER 26: NASA's Ares I-X rocket sits on launch pad 39-b at the Kennedy Space Center October 26, 2009 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Ares test flight is scheduled for launch tomorrow as NASA continues to work on replacing the Space Shuttle fleet.
  6. CAPE CANAVERAL, FL - OCTOBER 14: NASA workers are making final preparations on launch pad 39-B at the Kennedy Space Center, October 14, 2009 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Pad 39-B will be used for the Ares 1-X test flight, scheduled for later this month.
  7. KOROLEV, RUSSIA - OCTOBER 02: In this handout from NASA, Head of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Anatoly Perminov (2nd-R), talks to the crew of the International Space Station (ISS) at Mission Control Center Moscow on October 2, 2009 in Korolev, Russia.
  8. BAIKONUR, KAZAKHSTAN - SEPTEMBER 28: In this handout from NASA, the Soyuz rocket is rolled out to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome September 28, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The Soyuz is scheduled to launch the crew of Expedition 21 and a spaceflight participant on September 30, 2009.
  9. CAPE CANAVERAL, FL - SEPTEMBER 21: Crew members exit a modified Boeing 747 shuttle carrier with Space Shuttle Discovery mounted atop after landing at the shuttle landing facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on September 21, 2009 in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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