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 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 ...

Oct. 28, 2009 — -- NASA's Ares 1-X rocket roared into the sky over the Kennedy Space Center today in the first test of what may eventually replace the nation's aging fleet of space shuttles.

NASA's Ares 1-X counts down to launch. Houston, Oct. 26, 2009 — -- This isn't your daddy's space ship -- but it is something your grandfather might recognize. The Ares 1-X rocket sitting on ...

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 evening, NASA said. While NASA can’t control the weather ...

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.

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 ...

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… ...

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 ...

The Ares I-X is thought to be floating down under its parachute, heading for a splashdown in the Atlantic. Update at 11:32 a.m. ET: At least on TV, everything looked good. NASA writes that: ...

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… ...