Posted on 07/30/2007 3:51:18 AM PDT by Molly Pitcher
Thank you for your prayers. I will keep you posted on any developments in her recovery.
Happy Birthday.
Garden Sluts are Black Eyed Susans. They breed with total abandon. Hence the name.
Yes, you were correct. As a matter of fact, the Delta II was Boeing’s offering and the ATLAS V was our (Lockheed Martin’s) offering to the government’s ELV (Expendable Launch Vehicle) competitive project that started in the 90’s and pitted Boeing against LM to build an unmanned launch vehicle for the government. I worked on the ATLAS V development team. Then, in 2001, a went back to spacecraft where I had been in the early 90's.
Since then, the government decided to merge Boeing's Delta II with LM's ATLAS V and created a new company out of it, the United Launch Alliance, which finally passed the SEC last year.
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