Model Forum / General / Rockets / January 2006

   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.