Talk:Ares I

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	Archive 1 8 Jan 2007

Article rewrite

A number of people have commented that this article needs to be cleaned up, so I'm starting to rewrite it. Here is the outline I have come up with, but I would like to hear people's input on it.

Ares I’s role in Project Constellation
Design
- Design History
- Design Problems
Development Schedule
Criticisms
See also
References

One comment that was the sections on Design Problems and Criticisms should be combined, however, I think it would be better to keep them separate. Not all, or even most, of the criticisms are design problems with Ares I. For example, the use of a five segment SRB isn't a design problem, as it is not an engineering problem which needs to be overcome, it is a design criticism. There are design problems, such as the lack of sufficient power to launch the current Orion crew capsule, most of those will be worked out as the rocket is further developed. Generally, these need to just be kept separate and distinct, so there is no confusion between design problems and criticisms of the Ares I rocket.

Please let me know if you have any thoughts. Grant 23:52, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I rewrote the page as I discussed above. I kept large parts of the article intact, and just reorganized them. However, more than half of the article was completely rewritten. Grant 06:14, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The article reads very nicely; good effort. I think there is a (very minor) error on reference 4, where it's stated "On 4 January 2007, NASA announced that the Ares I had completed its system requirements review, the first such review completed for any manned spacecraft design since the Space Shuttle."

This, I believe is incorrect. The source restricts it to the first for any US design, which no doubt takes into account the Soviet (and later Russian Federation) Buran space shuttle program, which must have also undergone a similar review, as it had entered a fairly advanced stage of testing (including an unmanned launch and orbit) before it was finally axed outright in 2003.