Back to the Moon: the Ares 1 rocket - Artist view - Ares 1 rocket...

Back to the Moon: the Ares 1 rocket - Artist view - Ares 1 rocket - Artist view - The Ares 1 rocket carrying the module lives Orion. American project to return man to the Moon. The Ares 1 rocket is expected to take a crew to the space station in 2014 and then to the Moon in 2020. Artist's view. Ares I is specifically being designed to launch the Orion Crew Vehicle which is intended as a crew capsule to transport astronauts to the International Space Station, the Moon and eventually Mars. The rocket is scheduled to be launched by 2014. The Nasa's Project Constellation plans to send human explorers back to the Moon by 2020, and then onward to Mars; each Orion spacecraft will carry a crew of four to six astronauts