NASA studying Ares variant enabling Apollo 8-like trip around moon
NASA is studying the possibility of building an interim variant of its Ares rocket that could allow the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle to take a test swing around the moon and back prior to a lunar-landing attempt, akin to the Apollo 8 mission of 1968. Although such a flight is not currently part of...
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