Boeing Successfully Launches Mammoth Delta-4 Heavy

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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Best Technology Still Western: Good!

[Anonymous Coward]

I, for one, am glad that the best space technology still remains in the West, not China. The moderately successful launch of the Delta 4 should keep the West at least 10 years ahead of the Chinese.

The Chinese are aggressively militarizing space. Note that their space program is part of the Chinese Department of War. The American space program (aka NASA) is a purely civilian effort.

Re:NOT successful

[rainman_bc]

> "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)