Reports are surfacing at www.usspacenews.com that Boing is
considering canceling the Delta IV should a EEELV merger take place.
This would leave the Atlas 5 and the future CLV as the means to LEO.
One positive possibility is that SpaceX will create the Falcon 9. Which
fills the gap the Delta's demise would create and at a much lower price
tag.
Those of you modeling the Delta's get you data now before she haw pass into the past. For Rocketdyne the push will be to fly the RS-69 as a second stage engine on the CLV or as a cluster on the new Moon booster. Seems the SSME is pretty expensive to fly as a throwaway engine and NASA is looking for a lower cost option.
Dave Ketchledge
PS Home Land Security should not be part of our lives unless we fly on commerical aircraft. This President and his Dad did more damage to the electric power industry thru the creation of Enron than most of you know. Deregulation created the S&L mess, the airline industry mess, and cost Illinois half its nuclear power work force. In the end Excelon got a whole lot bigger.
So after all this deregulation junk brtought toi us by the conservatives and thier lobbyist buddies I'm voting them out of office. Mr. Rove and Condilissa can pack thier bags. I'd rather see General Powell and John McCain in office. Why.... because they are VETERAN's and have a real sense of honor , duty and country. This sitting idot in the White House has been the worst I have seen since LBJ. Keep it up Pat Robertson, you are the absoulte proof that religon and government are a bad mix. I want my daugthers to have the same RIGHTS that I have and to know SCIENCE. LLets face it the Asian and Germans hav3e a better school system then we do and as a society press strongly on technology, do you think China will be different, I doubt that. The choices we make today effect this country 20-30 years into the future. And I fail to see the conservatives as being well balanced. In Pat's case ,fanatical.
Those of you modeling the Delta's get you data now before she haw pass into the past. For Rocketdyne the push will be to fly the RS-69 as a second stage engine on the CLV or as a cluster on the new Moon booster. Seems the SSME is pretty expensive to fly as a throwaway engine and NASA is looking for a lower cost option.
Dave Ketchledge
PS Home Land Security should not be part of our lives unless we fly on commerical aircraft. This President and his Dad did more damage to the electric power industry thru the creation of Enron than most of you know. Deregulation created the S&L mess, the airline industry mess, and cost Illinois half its nuclear power work force. In the end Excelon got a whole lot bigger.
So after all this deregulation junk brtought toi us by the conservatives and thier lobbyist buddies I'm voting them out of office. Mr. Rove and Condilissa can pack thier bags. I'd rather see General Powell and John McCain in office. Why.... because they are VETERAN's and have a real sense of honor , duty and country. This sitting idot in the White House has been the worst I have seen since LBJ. Keep it up Pat Robertson, you are the absoulte proof that religon and government are a bad mix. I want my daugthers to have the same RIGHTS that I have and to know SCIENCE. LLets face it the Asian and Germans hav3e a better school system then we do and as a society press strongly on technology, do you think China will be different, I doubt that. The choices we make today effect this country 20-30 years into the future. And I fail to see the conservatives as being well balanced. In Pat's case ,fanatical.