Chris Cantell Discusses Science: Father faces son by Claudia Sonea

The misunderstanding between fathers and sons is deeply encored in history or at least that is what it seems when NASA scientists gave course to the debate: who is better, Jupiter or Ares. In Roman mythology Jupiter is the equivalent of the Greek god Zeus, while Ares is the son of Zeus. STOP! This is not a debate concerning the Gods although it is somewhat in connection to people’s desire to reach them.
Actually there are two projects that deal with the next flight to the moon. As many of you know NASA is planning to withdraw the space shuttle called Space Transportation System after finishing to assembly the International Space Station in 2010. Then by 2015 Ares I and Ares V will be used for orbital flights and if possible to get on the moon again by 2020. Marshall Space Flight Center and other NASA facilities have come up with a project to introduce a capsule at board of Ares I and then dock with a lunar stage carried by Ares V and head to the moon. According to Cook, the head of Ares office the first test flight will take place in less than a year.
On the other side the rival Jupiter is a project created by the same engineers that have worked at Ares. Not all, but most of them have joined hands with retirees and other space specialist using concepts from proposals that Marshall received from the 80s and 90s and some new ones. They worked on their own time and wished to maintain their identity anonymously, but sustain that Jupiter is better and would save NASA $35 billion of the $230 billion required for the Ares project. Yet, they are somehow similar, both needing two separate launches, the difference is that Jupiter’s rockets rely not on a shuttle booster rocket situated at core, but rather on a shuttle external tank.
Although Cook confessed they looked over the Jupiter plan and thought it was based on rather insecure numbers and rejected all critics referring to the fact that information is being suppressed. Ross Tierney who speaks on behalf of those who worked at Jupiter asks only for an independent commission to analyze both projects. Stay connected to find how the situation is unfolding.



related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080714/ap_on_sc/sci_alternative_moon_rocket;_ylt=AkQ3jXncOFvxH9GfgTxQdz.s0NUE

by Claudia Sonea for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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