Word: ula
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...21st century, the agency will be turning to a mix of suppliers to dream up its rockets, notably United Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint venture of Lockheed and Boeing. The company already has a big and impressive lineup of boosters that it sells regularly to the military and commercial launchers. And with 37 flights in the past 36 months, it clearly knows its business. The problem is that ULA rockets were not built for the trickier job of launching people, and not a single one of them is crew-rated. It will take at least four years to make...