Comments on: ULA inches closer to passage http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/01/09/ula-inches-closer-to-passage/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ula-inches-closer-to-passage Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Brent http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/01/09/ula-inches-closer-to-passage/#comment-6520 Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:18:10 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=780#comment-6520 Don,

I’d agree with you if SpaceX was going to court to get a shot at a launch in 6 months, but the ULA monopoly extends to 2011 (?) while the Falcon 9 may be ready as soon as late 2007. I can totally understand why Musk doesn’t want the 9 rusting away for 4 years.

In any case, the ULA is bad practice anyway (in my opinion) and its to the shame of the Pentagon to back it. As much as I think the “military-industrial complex” is mostly a paranoid delusion, its hard to deny its existence when the DOD bends over backward to satisfy Block-Mart

]]> By: Donald F. Robertson http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/01/09/ula-inches-closer-to-passage/#comment-6519 Mon, 09 Jan 2006 18:42:13 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=780#comment-6519 I, for one, wish SpaceX luck (though I opposed their law suit against Kistler and am uncomfortable with their readiness to go to court when they have yet to demonstrate a working rocket). I see nothing good, and a lot bad, in the combination of our two medium-class launch suppliers.

— Donald

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