by neufer » Sat Aug 28, 2010 1:44 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ares_V wrote:
<<The Ares V (formerly known as the Cargo Launch Vehicle or CaLV) is the planned cargo launch component of the Constellation program, which would replace the Space Shuttle after its retirement in 2011.
Ares V and the smaller Ares I are named after Ares, the Greek god of war, which is the equivalent to the Roman god Mars. Initially, the Ares V would launch the Earth Departure Stage and Altair lunar lander when NASA returns to the Moon, which is currently planned for 2019, but would also serve as the principal launcher for missions beyond the Earth-Moon system, including the program's ultimate goal, a manned mission to Mars after 2030. The unmanned Ares V would complement the smaller, and human-rated Ares I rocket for the launching of the 4-6 person Orion spacecraft. Both rockets, deemed safer than the current Space Shuttle, would utilize technologies developed for Project Apollo, the Shuttle, and the Delta IV EELV programs. On February 1, 2010, President Barack Obama announced a proposal to cancel the Constellation program effective with the U.S. 2011 fiscal year budget, subject to congressional approval.>>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ares wrote:
<<The Sun-god Helios once spied Ares(Mars) and Aphrodite(Venus) enjoying each other secretly in the hall of Hephaestus, and he promptly reported the incident. Hephaestus contrived to catch the couple in the act, and so he fashioned a finely-knitted and nearly invisible net with which to snare the illicit lovers. At the appropriate time, this net was sprung, and trapped Ares and Aphrodite locked in very private embrace. But Hephaestus was not yet satisfied with his revenge — he invited the Olympian gods and goddesses to view the unfortunate pair. For the sake of modesty, the goddesses demurred, but the male gods went to witness the sight. Some commented on the beauty of Aphrodite, others remarked that they would eagerly trade places with Ares, but all who were present mocked the two. In a much later interpolated detail, Ares put the youth Alectryon by his door to warn them of Helios' arrival, as Helios would tell Hephaestus of Aphrodite's infidelity if the two were discovered, but Alectryon fell asleep. Helios discovered the two and alerted Hephaestus. Ares was furious and turned Alectryon into a rooster, which now never forgets to announce the arrival of the sun in the morning.
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Ares's sacred birds were the woodpecker,
the eagle owl and, especially in the south, the vulture.
The birds of Ares (Ornithes Areioi) were a flock of feather-dart-dropping birds that guarded the Amazons' shrine of the god on a coastal island in the Black Sea.
Ares was rarely included in cult in ancient Greece, save at Sparta, where youths each sacrificed a puppy to Enyalios before engaging in the all-out ritual fighting. Just east of Sparta there was an archaic statue of the god in chains, to show that the spirit of war and victory was never to leave the city.The temple to Ares in the agora of Athens that Pausanias saw in the second century AD had only been moved and rededicated there during the time of Augustus; in essence it was a Roman temple to Mars. The Areopagus, the "mount of Ares" where Paul of Tarsus preached, is sited at some distance from the Acropolis; from archaic times it was a site of trials.>>
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[float=right][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/NASA-Ares-logo.svg/200px-NASA-Ares-logo.svg.png[/img][/float]<<The Ares V (formerly known as the Cargo Launch Vehicle or CaLV) is the planned cargo launch component of the Constellation program, which would replace the Space Shuttle after its retirement in 2011. [color=#FF0000]Ares V and the smaller Ares I are named after Ares, the Greek god of war, which is the equivalent to the Roman god Mars.[/color] Initially, the Ares V would launch the Earth Departure Stage and Altair lunar lander when NASA returns to the Moon, which is currently planned for 2019, but would also serve as the principal launcher for missions beyond the Earth-Moon system, including the program's ultimate goal, a manned mission to Mars after 2030. The unmanned Ares V would complement the smaller, and human-rated Ares I rocket for the launching of the 4-6 person Orion spacecraft. Both rockets, deemed safer than the current Space Shuttle, would utilize technologies developed for Project Apollo, the Shuttle, and the Delta IV EELV programs. On February 1, 2010, President Barack Obama announced a proposal to cancel the Constellation program effective with the U.S. 2011 fiscal year budget, subject to congressional approval.>>[/quote]
[quote=" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ares"]
<<The Sun-god Helios once spied Ares(Mars) and Aphrodite(Venus) enjoying each other secretly in the hall of Hephaestus, and he promptly reported the incident. Hephaestus contrived to catch the couple in the act, and so he fashioned a finely-knitted and nearly invisible net with which to snare the illicit lovers. At the appropriate time, this net was sprung, and trapped Ares and Aphrodite locked in very private embrace. But Hephaestus was not yet satisfied with his revenge — he invited the Olympian gods and goddesses to view the unfortunate pair. For the sake of modesty, the goddesses demurred, but the male gods went to witness the sight. Some commented on the beauty of Aphrodite, others remarked that they would eagerly trade places with Ares, but all who were present mocked the two. In a much later interpolated detail, Ares put the youth Alectryon by his door to warn them of Helios' arrival, as Helios would tell Hephaestus of Aphrodite's infidelity if the two were discovered, but Alectryon fell asleep. Helios discovered the two and alerted Hephaestus. Ares was furious and turned Alectryon into a rooster, which now never forgets to announce the arrival of the sun in the morning.
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Ares's sacred birds were the woodpecker, [size=160][color=#0000FF]the eagle owl[/color][/size] and, especially in the south, the vulture. [color=#0000FF]The birds of Ares (Ornithes Areioi) were [size=140]a flock of feather-dart-dropping birds that guarded the Amazons' shrine[/size] of the god on a coastal island in the Black Sea.[/color]
Ares was rarely included in cult in ancient Greece, save at Sparta, where youths each sacrificed a puppy to Enyalios before engaging in the all-out ritual fighting. Just east of Sparta there was an archaic statue of the god in chains, to show that the spirit of war and victory was never to leave the city.The temple to Ares in the agora of Athens that Pausanias saw in the second century AD had only been moved and rededicated there during the time of Augustus; in essence it was a Roman temple to Mars. The Areopagus, the "mount of Ares" where Paul of Tarsus preached, is sited at some distance from the Acropolis; from archaic times it was a site of trials.>>[/quote]