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This space biz is getting confusing quickly. ULA has Vulcan rockets (see article below release 2 days ago) and Paul Allen is starting Vulcan Aerospace which uses X-Prize winner SpaceShipOne heritage. Spock dies and now everyone's horning in on the Vulcan brand.

http://www.space.com/29100-vulcan-rocket-united-launch-alliance.html

'Behold Vulcan': Next-Generation Rocket Unveiled by United Launch Alliance

by Robert Z. Pearlman, collectSPACE.com Editor | April 14, 2015 06:47am ET

United Launch Alliance, the U.S. company behind the Atlas and Delta family of rockets, has unveiled Vulcan, its next generation launch system.

The new Vulcan rocket, which got its name through a poll that attracted more than a million votes, incorporates new engines, a reuse approach that features a mid-air recovery and a new upper stage aimed at enabling complex on-orbit operations.

"[Vulcan is] going to take the best parts of Delta and Atlas and combine them with new and advanced technology to provide a rocket that is not just as reliable and certain as Atlas has been, but also much more powerful, with higher performance, greater flexibility and [is] significantly more affordable," Tory Bruno, United Launch Alliance CEO, said in a press conference held Monday (April 13) at the Space Symposium in Colorado.

1 posted on 04/16/2015 9:41:05 AM PDT by Rockitz
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To: All

I smell a copyright infringement case coming around the bend.


2 posted on 04/16/2015 9:43:36 AM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: Rockitz

Will all employees get their Ears Vulaninzed for free?


5 posted on 04/16/2015 10:13:28 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Rockitz
Great Idea (I'd fly in it) but I think the time for it passed 50 years ago


6 posted on 04/16/2015 9:34:37 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Television: Teacher, Mother, Secret Lover)
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