Comments about ‘Test of rocket is successful, but its future is uncertain’

Watched on NASA TV and then went outside and from Ogden I could see a "plume" in the sky. Remarkable!!

I just got back an hour ago from seeing it live.

Wonderful stuff!

Here's what chaps me. The reports now circulating say that NASA shouldn't attempt to go to the Moon on the Ares 1 because their budget of $18 billion per year (an historic low in terms of percentage of the total federal budget) would have to go ALL THE WAY UP to $21 billion.

That's right - $3 billion per year.

Which is what the US spends in Iraq in ten days.

I don't know about you, but I think that $3 billion would do a whole lot more good for our country spent on aerospace science and technology that trying to sit on that leaky barrel of rattlesnakes in the desert.

The engineers and scientists worked like crazy getting this design working. Unfortunately it should have been done 5 years ago.

ATK has no vision. It made the promotory facility is a horrible place to work. The employees are always in a state of fear because there is no way to work effectively without breaking some rule. And then it's out the door.

Upper management made no effort to push back. So the work ground to a halt.

If the program is stopped it's due to poor management and ATK.

Okay...so I had the assistance of my computer speakers while watching it over the internet, but it was still spectacular, even if I wasn't there live to see it. Have been to a few of the shuttle booster test fires, as well as others, but from what I saw on the video, it definitely appears as if this new one did fire stronger. The plume of smoke certainly appeared much bigger. Let's just hope now that the government doesn't put the kabosh on it!

I was there, and it was a stronger, brighter, more consistent burn than the shuttle test I saw a while ago. That's what it seemed like to me anyway. Quite amazing.

I was there also and it WAS fantastic - to see and to hear and to witness the entire spectacle. I am so sorry the other 5,000 people who were there last time couldn't make it again.

The video leaves me with a question. It plainly shows people wandering around beside something that looks like the booster and then the next frames show the firing. I KNOW people were NOT up there by the missile. I was told that it was 2.2 miles from us up there on the hill and that the closest people, the command bunker, was 1/2 mile away and underground. So what are those misleading pictures showing people RIGHT NEXT TO the booster in the video?