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Air Force is “growing concerned” about the pace of Vulcan rocket launches

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Ars reported in February that Blue Origin, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, is the leading candidate to buy United Launch Alliance.
I’m so sick of billionaires and their space shit.
- The privatizing of everything will continue, now get back to your wage.
  
  ULA is already a private company. I don't think the US government has done any of their own work to get to space since the shuttle.
- Yeah, why aren't regular folks building reusable heavy-lift rocket systems?
  
  Why cant scientific progress not be a group effort with everyone doing their part according to their means?
  Why does it have to be the greed addicts with the power to initiate human greatness and ingenuity?
  Don't we all want essentially the same things?
  sustainable production of (luxury) goods
  sustainable power production
  sustainable homes in a sustainable climate
  to evolve as a species and explore more of the unknowns in the cosmos
  
  I wish we were, through taxes. Though we'd probably just pay Boeing forty-eleventy billion dollars to never complete the project.
  
  Regular folks aren't sociopaths.
Bah, like the Romulans could do any better.
- Imagine their faces when they'll tell em it's a work of fiction..
Damn, wonder why ULA is up for sale. Boeing and Lockheed don't want to play together anymore?

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