ARES 1-X launch on NASA TV.

ARES 1-X is the test vehicle for the actual ARES 1 rocket that might carry humans to the ISS or beyond Earth orbit by 2017 or 2018 depending on what Mr. Obama decides at the end of the year.

ARES 1-X Launch

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Update: Launch scrubbed at 11:24 a.m. due to weather