United Launch Alliance (ULA): America’s Ride to Space
Thursday, February 2 at 7 pm at USSRC Education Training Facility
Anton Kolomiets, United Launch Alliance
The talk will began with a brief history on ULA, its past successes and current go-forward plan with manned space flight, cargo, exploration, and so forth. Including the new Vulcan rocket, and possibility of composite and BE-4 engines manufacturing at their Decatur Alabama plant. The talk also updated us on the NASA’s Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS) that ULA is building for NASA Space Launch System (SLS)’s EM-1 mission which was shipped to Kennedy Space Center in spring of 2017.
USSRC Education Training Facility
U.S. Space & Rocket Center's Education Training Facility (ETF) is located approximate at 5 Tranquility Base [Google Map] on the campus of U.S. Space & Rocket Center (USSRC). Sometime the online maps will take you to the Marriott, which share the same address. It is the brown building just after the turn to the Marriott when you are approaching USSRC. It has both the USSRC and NASA logo on the main entrance. On Google Map it is listed as "Marshall Institute Education Training Facility. HAL5's meeting takes place in the main auditorium on the first floor. Toward the back of the building when you come in. There will be signage pointing you to the auditorium.
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