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Boeing Successfully Launches Mammoth Delta-4 Heavy

Posted by timothy on from the yeah-it's-got-a-hemi dept.

nick-bts writes "CNN, the BBC and Space.com are reporting the first successful launch of the new Boeing Delta-4 Heavy, capable of lifting 23 tonnes into a low-Earth orbit (similar to the space shuttle). Personally I think the Ariane 5 and 'Satan' are way sexier..."

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  1. Re:NOT successful by rainman_bc · · Score: 0, Troll

    > "Air Force instead paid to launch a dummy payload and a pair of small research satellites."

    Our tax dollars at work.

    Would you rather that they had put another $Billion of our tax dollars into a spy satellite that would be uselessly drifting in space right now because of the partial failure of this untested rocket?

    How about health? Environment? Education? Alternative Fuels research? I can think of 1000's of better things to spend money on. But then again I'm not a war monger from America either...

    (the moderators will have a hayday over this one)

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