For the first time in nearly 30 years, a brand new NASA rocket has rolled out to a seaside launching pad in Florida to prepare for a launch test debut. The rocket is Ares I-X — a suborbital ...

NASA Ares launch pad has advance lighting mitigation system NASA’s Ares I-X test rocket has been delayed today in part because of the number of lightning strikes in the area – 154 since last ...

This is the story of NASA's Ares-class super-heavy lift vehicle. Before SLS, this was the booster rocket slated to bring humanity back beyond low-Earth orbit.

NASA is confident that its first test flight of the new Ares I-X rocket will go well next week. But if it ends in an explosive failure, the agency affirmed that the nearby space shuttle Atlantis ...

NASA's Ares 1-X rocket, intended as part of the replacement for the nation's aging space shuttles, faced more weather delays before its first test launch today.

This morning NASA fired off the Ares I-X, an unmanned test of the first stage of its first new manned spacecraft since 1981. After the space shuttle disasters, NASA hopes this will be the safest ...

The Ares 1-X rocket, intended by NASA as part of the replacement for the space shuttle, is on Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center, ready for liftoff. Will it start astronauts on the way the ...

Ares I-X launches.An experimental version of the rocket that NASA hopes will replace the space shuttle as the nation's way of getting astronauts into space just launched from the Kennedy Space ...

This story was filed by CBS News space consultant William Harwood. Engineers made final preparations Tuesday morning for the long-awaited launch of NASA's towering Ares I-X rocket - the 33-story ...

NASA's newest rocket successfully completed a brief test flight Wednesday, the first step in a back-to-the-moon program that could yet be shelved by the White House. The 327-foot Ares I-X rocket ...

My astronaut colleagues on shuttle Atlantis have completed three of their planned spacewalks to repair and upgrade NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Their exacting, sky-high brain surgery on Hub… ...