Reply to post: Re: Depressing

Ex-Soviet engines fingered after Antares ROCKET launch BLAST

Gene Cash Silver badge

Re: Depressing

That's because Congress is too incompetent to fund NASA to research and develop a new engine. Orbital would much rather have used new engines IF THEY HAD THEM.

OTOH, they were fingered in the destruction of the N-1 moon rocket, so they're not exactly trustworthy.

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