Engineers finished testing a small solid rocket motor that will help to separate the second stage of the next-generation Ares I rocket from the first stage, NASA announced. That small rocket also will help ensure that fuel in the second stage settles usefully to the bottom of the upper stage fuel tank. Those tests were conducted at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Ares I and its Orion crew capsule will launch astronauts into low Earth orbit beginning with…
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