| You are seriously misinformed. ULA is just a launch company. They don't have a human spaceflight program. First of all, ULA doesn't have that many more launches then SpaceX and by the end of this year, SpaceX will overtake them. ULA has a perfect record of launches, but they started out with legacy mature vehicles that had failures before ULA was formed (by the military). They don't get as much credit because they often launched for 300M+ while also getting almost a 1 billion in subsides every year for most of their history. > pretty strangely nobody ever seems to give them credit for the massive list of successful launches they have under their belt. Not sure what you are talking about. Everybody seriously interest in space knows about ULA. The CEO Tory Bruno is well known personality on twitter and regularly post on reddit. And if you want to argue ULA is its parent companies, these were in the HLS competition. Boeing had its own proposal. However, despite them having a human space flight contract, their proposal was judged to be of very low quality. They were remove in the first round. Lockheed Martin the other ULA parent was part of 'National Team'. However NASA identified a number of problems with their Accent Stage and that was part of the reason the 'National Team' was not selected. > Maybe because they're not run by Musk or Bezos? How strange to put so much faith in a few eccentric billionaires - one of which is clearly building rockets as a pet project. ULA practically speaking was part of both Dynetics and Blue Origins National Team. Why you insist on talking about ULA even while they were not part of this competition at all is a mystery to me. That is why nobody brings them up, because they literally were not in the competition. |