Help Name ULA launcher "Vulcan"

[MANT!]

ULA is announcing a name the launcher contest..

One of the names available is Vulcan, since Leonard Nimoy's
passing earlier this year, I was thinking of a small way to immortalize his contributions to society..so how about a launcher named after the fictional race he popularized?

vote here..

https://www.polleverywhere.com/voteula

the names in order..

Eagle
Freedom
GalaxyOne
Vulcan
Zeus

Lets see if our Trek fandom can contribute again to America's space program..

 

[publiusr]

The real answer is "Falcon" But that isn't ULA--not my favorite outfit: http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2014/03/spacex-and-ula-eelv-contracts/

 

[YellowSubmarine]

Well, ULA will be announcing the details of their launcher shortly, an hour before SpaceX do their first successful* first stage landing. We can still be surprised by what they offer. If they offer anything that has re-usability taken in mind, we could only rejoice.

* Yes, it is still far from guaranteed, but given what has failed so far, I would be kinda surprised if they don't pull it off.

 

[publiusr]

I'd like to see Aldrin's Star Booster:
http://buzzaldrin.com/space-vision/rocket_science/starbooster/


--but with Dynetics F-1 powerplant--but it will probably be some type of engine pod recovery were I to bet--shades of the Saturn V-B concept:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V-B


Or it may be a deal with Blue Origin
http://www.americaspace.com/?p=79828
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=35754.msg1355422#msg1355422

Back to Aldrin for a moment. He also proposed a shuttle derived HLLV--but instead of SLS in-line design--he wanted an Americanized Energiya type HLV:
http://buzzaldrin.com/space-vision/rocket_science/aquila/

This with winged flybacks, would have been a perfect shuttle replacement.

 

[YellowSubmarine]

So it's actually going to be named Vulcan. I guess that's old news, but I didn't learn about it until I went to ULA's site. The article, however, contains a lot of words which, even though I read half, didn't tell me a lot about what they have unveiled. I will leave reading the other half for tomorrow, maybe it does say something.