Ares 1 Explosion

The Ares I Explosion
Ares I was the first rocket set for mars in the United State's Ares project. Set to reach NASA with supplies to build a colony along with 10 astronauts, Kurt Hildebrand, Raymon Reddington, Robert Lambermont, James Gregory, Tim Brady, Kurt Greyson, Bradley Jackson, Harvey Jones, and Emiliano Sankara. All astronauts survived the explosion but the payload of the rocket costed 16 billion dollars and the rocket 4 billion., leaving $20,000,000,000 to go up in flames. Because of this incident caused by an unknown factor Anti-Space Exploration Protests started on Washington D.C despite kicking us into the Second Space Race.