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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Vince Bilardo, project manager from Glenn Research Center, talks to the media about the arrival of the Ares I-X upper stage simulator components behind him in the Vehicle Assembly Building's high bay 4 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The upper stage simulators will be used in the test flight identified as Ares I-X in 2009. The segments will simulate the mass and the outer mold line and will be more than 100 feet of the total vehicle height of 327 feet. The simulator comprises 11 segments that are approximately 18 feet in diameter. Most of the segments will be approximately 10 feet high, ranging in weight from 18,000 to 60,000 pounds, for a total of approximately 450,000 pounds. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
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November 12, 2008
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Kennedy Space Center, FL
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