[BenLurkin]

This is why you could never get me on a fricking rocket...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0g7YL3RzT8

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I did some further looking and found the Delta Heavy launch last October had a huge fireball around the rocket. But that is by design! It is an expendable engine and the liquid hydrogen starts flowing before the oxygen. Excess hydrogen spills out of the engine and up the rocket body -- it all ignites upon engine ignition. That's quite the design!

This massive rocket creates a fireball as it launches, and that’s by design

[Pollard]

United Launch Alliance (ULA) is an American spacecraft launch service provider that manufactures and operates a number of rocket vehicles that are capable of launching spacecraft into orbits around Earth and to other bodies in the solar system. The company, which is a joint venture between Lockheed Martin Space and Boeing Defense, Space & Security, was formed in December 2006. Launch customers of the United States government include the Department of Defense (DoD), NASA, and other organizations.[2]

Boeing

baa haa haa haa

[Terry L Smith]

ULA ain’t SpaceX!
Dey’s day NASA boys d’at quit!
aka guvmint woikers!

[PAR35]

Another case of those Lockheed engineers not knowing the difference between French and English units of measurement? Or just affirmative action hiring at NASA.