[hopespringseternal]

After leaving the astronaut corps, he went to work for the booster maker, ATK Thiokol, where he now leads the company's effort to develop the new family of rockets.

And therefore proposed continuing business for his employer.

[orionblamblam]

> And therefore proposed continuing business for his employer.


Actually, got that backwards: before he came here to ATK, he and other astronauts were proposing to fly pretty much what's being shown. So he came to ATK to get it done, since LockMart and Boeing weren't going to do it.