Ares 1-X test flight cleared for launch Tuesday morning

Senior NASA officials convened at the Kennedy Space Center on Friday and formally approved plans to launch a $445 million test flight of the next-generation Ares 1 rocket next week. "This team has done a tremendous job getting to this point in the flow," said Doug Cooke, associate administrator for NASA's exploration systems mission directorate More

(Source: Space Flight Now - Oct 25)