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The Ares 5 rocket - Artist view

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Nasa/Novapix

Reference

e-exl01-20030

Date

2006-12-10

Ares V is being designed as a cargo launch capable of sending large-scale hardware and materials to the Moon, and supplying needed staples to sustain a human presence beyond Earth orbit. The NASA's Project Constellation plans to send human explorers back to the Moon by 2020, and then onward to Mars.