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Ares I-X Rocket Taking Shape

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Monday, March 16th, 2009

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The final pieces of the Ares I-X flight test rocket left the Alliant Techsystems Inc. [ATK] manufacturing facility in Promontory, Utah, to begin a 2,917-mile journey to its launch site at Kennedy Space Center, Fla. The first stage motor segments are the last shipment of Ares I-X major hardware elements. The hardware will arrive in Florida later this month and undergo final processing and preparations before being stacked with other portions of the rocket. "This shipment means great things for…

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