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Lawmaker Suggests Using American-Made Engines For National Security Launches

Pat Host

Friday, March 14th, 2014

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Lawmaker Suggests Using American-Made Engines For National Security Launches

United Launch Alliance's (ULA) Atlas V launch vehicle uses the Russian RD-180 engine. Photo: Air Force.

House Armed Services Committee (HASC) member Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) said Friday the United States should move away from using rocket engines not domestically-made in national security space launches. “I believe it’s in the interest of our national security that we should shift to American made engines,” Wilson said during Friday’s hearing on the Air Force’s fiscal year 2015 budget request. United Launch Alliance (ULA), currently the sole provider of U.S. national security space launches as part of the Air Force’s…

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