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georgegassaway
20th February 2009, 12:02 AM
I ran across this website that has a lot of images, photos, and links related to Project Constellation (Ares, Orion, and even the concepts dropped along the way).

Page 1: A Visual History of NASA's Project Constellation:
http://www.tallgeorge.com/projectconstellation.php

Page 2 - Actual hardware:
http://www.tallgeorge.com/projectconstellation2.php

I have my reservations about the whole thing, which I will not get into. But I figure several people would find those pages interesting to see, and perhaps be useful.

I did find it interesting that they have used the same sort of roll pattern for the Abort Test Capsule (Boilerplate) that the Apollo's had for Pad Abort tests and Little Joe-II flights. Well, I had seen photos of that last year, thought I'd point that out.

- George Gassaway

cjl
20th February 2009, 01:48 AM
I like this image:

http://www.tallgeorge.com/images/projectconstellation/2008-11-20%20LAS%20Motor%20Test.jpg

:D

Microspeed
21st February 2009, 01:46 AM
Wow, very interesting site. Nice to see the progress pictures on the I-X.

I like this picture:
http://www.tallgeorge.com/images/projectconstellation/2008-02-26%20Ares%20I-X%20First%20Stage%20Propellant%20Casting%20Mandrel %20www_newmars_com.jpg

Now THAT's a mandrel!