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Forum:	Exploration: Asteroids, Moon and Mars
Topic:	Ares 4: Early moon shot for Orion

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by katabatic: [B]Oops, I read elsewhere that this would be an unmanned mission. Which makes sense....[/B][/QUOTE]
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<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="600"><TR><td bgcolor="#000000"><TABLE BORDER=0 cellpadding=4 border=0 cellspacing=1 WIDTH="100%"><TR bgcolor="#660000"><TD COLSPAN=2><CENTER><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#ffffff" FACE="sans-serif">T O P I C     R E V I E W</font></CENTER></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top><FONT SIZE="2" FACE="sans-serif">mensax</FONT></TD><TD><FONT SIZE="2" FACE="sans-serif">NASA Studies Early Moon Shot for New Space Capsule <A HREF="http://www.space.com/news/070126_ares_moon.html" TARGET=_blank>http://www.space.com/news/070126_ares_moon.html</A> <P>This is very interesting news.<P>Noah<BR></FONT></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top><FONT SIZE="2" FACE="sans-serif">katabatic</FONT></TD><TD><FONT SIZE="2" FACE="sans-serif">Wouldn't that require man-rating the Ares 5, and wouldn't that be rather needlessly expensive (given that the heavy-lift booster would otherwise be used only to launch the unmanned lunar lander)? Or am I missing something here (which is often the case)?</FONT></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top><FONT SIZE="2" FACE="sans-serif">katabatic</FONT></TD><TD><FONT SIZE="2" FACE="sans-serif">Oops, I read elsewhere that this would be an unmanned mission. Which makes sense....</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE></td></tr></table>

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