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"Jeff Findley" wrote in message
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Atlas V. Delta IV costs too damn much and is being phased out by ULA.

But I thought Delta IV and Atlas V were supposed to compete with each other
and drive down costs!

And when that didn't work, bringing them together under ULA, essentially
as a monopoly, was supposed to drive down launch costs too.

Next you're going to tell me there's no Santa Claus!

There has to be, NORAD tracks him every year! The government wouldn't
lie to us, would it? ;-)

Jeff
--
"the perennial claim that hypersonic airbreathing propulsion would
magically make space launch cheaper is nonsense -- LOX is much cheaper
than advanced airbreathing engines, and so are the tanks to put it in
and the extra thrust to carry it." - Henry Spencer