Up, up and away. NASA’s new Ares 1-X rocket blasted off for the first time Wednesday morning in a $445 million test flight that carried disposable ballast and sensors. The skinny 327-foot rocket, which was designed to replace the shuttle as the next step in returning astronauts to the moon, is the first new rocket to lift off from Kennedy Space Center since 1981. Ares 1 will be ready to carry astronauts to space between 2015-2017, but the rocket’s first strip to the moon would not be until years later.
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