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Ares program[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]
was the [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]United States [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]spaceflight[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]
effort which landed the [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]first humans[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]
on Mars. Conceived during the [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Nixon administration[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]
and conducted by [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]NASA[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]
, Ares began in earnest after President [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]John F. Kennedy[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]
's Apollo program national goal of "landing a man on the Moon" by the end of the decade was accomplished in 1969.
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Ares goal was first accomplished during the[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]
Ares 6 [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]
mission on April 4 1986 when astronauts [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Phil [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Stone[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif], [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Ralph [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]
Gershon and [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Nathalie [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]
York landed. No subsequent Ares missions landed [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]astronauts[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]
on Mars ; humans have landed on two [/FONT]
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The Ares program ran from 1971 until 1986, and was America's fourth [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]human spaceflight[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]
program (following [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Mercury[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]
, [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Gemini[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]
and [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Apollo[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]
). It reused [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Apollo spacecraft[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]
and [/FONT]
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launch vehicles, which were also used for the [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Moonlab program[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]
and a joint [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]U.S.–Soviet lunar mission[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]
in 1980. These subsequent programs are however considered a different part of the Apollo or Ares programs.[/FONT]
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Ares was successfully carried out despite two major setbacks: the 1980 [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Apollo N[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]
flight which killed three astronauts and the in-flight destruction of a Saturn VB the next year. [/FONT]
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Ares set [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]major milestones[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]
in human spaceflight. It stands alone in sending manned missions beyond [/FONT]
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and Earth sphere of influence. The program spurred advances in many areas of technology incidental to rocketry and manned spaceflight, including [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]avionics[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]
, [/FONT]
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, and [/FONT]
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. Like Apollo, Ares also sparked interest in many fields of [/FONT]
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and left many physical facilities and machines developed for the program as landmarks. Its command modules and other objects and artifacts are displayed throughout the world, notably in the [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Smithsonian's Air and Space Museums[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]
in Washington, DC and at NASA's centers in Florida, Texas and Alabama.[/FONT]
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