If you don't know what the Ares I-X Program is then let me inform you about it. It's a $9 billion project used for the Orion crew vehicles and Ares rockets to go to outer space through NASA. The Ares I-X will stay on earth and will no longer fly anymore. Well you may ask yourself what does that have to do with computers and technology, that's more related to science. Well I can tell you this, even though they have discontinued the program, NASA is now more focused on advancing in robotics technology more than ever.
In the press conferences on Sunday 1/31/2010 at the White House when Peter Orszag, Office of Management and Budget Director, announced that the Constellation Program is dead and now moving NASA more into, "advance robotics and other steps that will help to inspire Am
ericans and not just return a man or
a woman to the Moon but undertake the longer range research that could succeed in human spaceflight to Mars.", quoted by Popular Science magazine.
Since focusing on more technical robotic devices, like Spirit and Opportunity rovers on Mars, will allow us to go further and longer in time within space to collect even greater information. It also means safer missions sent out without harming humans lives in the process. Plus, it will be cheaper in the long run as well. Cutting the price from a $6-8 billion project to a huge drop of only $800 million per project. That might still sound like a lot, but compared to $8 billion that will loosen some of these massive money outputs, and place that money into other projects where it is needed. This will also open up more within technology and advance more into this field allowing more employees within the IT field to be needed. The direction is moving to technology within all fields, this is just one of the areas that it will advance even more.
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