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ULA Vulcan Rocket Q&A with ULA's Dr. George Sowers - April 14, 2015
Chris Bergin:
Dr. George Sowers - VP, Advanced Concepts and Technologies (new rocket development is within his department) has kindly agreed to take questions on the NGLS (Named Vulcan) that was revealed April 13.
Dr. Sowers is a great friend of the site and has provided some superb Q&As here, for which we're very grateful.
I'm opening this now, ahead of Dr. Sowers answering questions on Tuesday, April 14, MT.
One question per member to ensure Dr. Sowers isn't overloaded with questions. Ensure your question is well presented, readable and worthwhile and please read the coverage of the reveal here:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=37251.0 - to ensure you don't ask a question already addressed (or that you ensure it asked for clarification of an answer).
TrevorMonty:
All best with the Vulcan. It has turned me into a ULA fan and many others judging by forum activities and name voting.
Do ULA plan to introduce IVF on Centuar or will it wait for ACES?.
Malderi:
Hi Dr. Sowers,
Thanks very much for doing this with us. Can you talk about any timelines or capabilities for Vulcan human launch? That wasn't touched on at all during the press conference, but with CST-100/Atlas making a lot of news, I'm sure things like pad access etc are in the works.
Thank you.
Space Ghost 1962:
Thank you Dr. Sowers for your offer of answering NGLS/Vulcan questions.
If you and your rival are equally successful at your respective first stage "reuse" strategies, how well will they compete in terms of increasing overall annual launch frequency of each vendor?
Thank you again in advance for answering my humble question.
robertross:
Thank you Dr. Sowers for the opportunity.
My question is whether the vehicle (or a specific configuration) be rated for nuclear payloads (IE: science missions with Plutonium)?
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