Time Magazine Names NASA's Ares-I As "Best Invention of 2009"

By Nancy Atkinson - November 12, 2009 at 8:16 PM UTC | Space Exploration

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Whoa. As many people noted on

Twitter:

Didn't see this one coming. Time Magazine named NASA's Ares rocket as the

2009 Invention of the Year.

Ares beat out the what has been billed as the

world's best paper airplane

,

the bladeless fan

,

rubber made from dandelions

, and, my favorite,

teleportation

. I don't know who Time had for their judges, but obviously Buzz Aldrin wasn't among them. Check out his

Huffington Post article

where he says although the Ares I-X launched looked spectacular, Ares 1 needs to be scrapped.