I don't think any of you guys are in to this shit, but the new program is to go to the moon and mars.

They have this new rocket that is a fucking tank. It has a payload of lots lots more than the shuttle or ANY spacecraft right now. Mulitple times...forgot how many. Anyway there is no crew on it. Its all payload. Its the Ares V.

Then the crew will blast off on the Ares I. Much smaller.

So the Cargo thing blasts off and orbits the earth for a lil while, forgot how long, then the crew blasts off and they dock together (with the big one) while orbiting the Earth. then that big cargo craft still has lots of fuel and it blast both the crew and the payload, from space, to the moon.

Then when they are in orbit around the moon, they seperate. The lunar module with the crew lands on the moon first, I think. Then the payload undocks from that big rocket and it lands on the moon too. So the Astros have lots of stuff up there that they don't have to bring themselves.

Then when they are done up there playing around, the crew blasts off and re-docks with that big cargo rocket that has been orbiting the moon all the time they were on the moon, and they blast off, from space, back to the earth.

Not sure why they do it like that, but it kind of makes sense. It just seems like a lot of docking and undocking and docking and blasting off from here and blasting off from there. They prolly thought it all out though.

You can go here and click on the "To the Moon and beyond" video.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/main/index.html

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