The United Launch Alliance (ULA), makers of the Atlas V, Delta II, and Delta IV launch vehicles, is letting America vote on the name of their new rocket. This rocket, currently dubbed the "Next Generation Launch System (NGLS)," will replace the Atlas V starting in 2019. It will be powered by LOX/Methane in the first stage and will use the Centaur upper stage.

http://www.ulalaunch.com/ula-campai...99s+Next+Rocket

In addition to the names listed at this link, there are two new names added today. To vote, text to 22333 with the message:
ULA1 for "Eagle"
ULA2 for "Freedom"
ULA3 for "GalaxyOne"
ULA4 for "Vulcan"
ULA5 for "Zeus"

I can tell you, as a ULA employee, that the last two names were added due to the overwhelmingly bad response to the first three names by company employees. We submitted names for consideration, but didn't get to vote on the first three 'finalists' (the execs chose them). In response to a true uproar, we got to vote on the last two names, which came from a list of 10 choices.

Vote for your favorite. I look forward to thoughts on the names from people who truly love rockets!

I'm voting Vulcan in honor of Spock/Leonard Nimoy.

Zeus would be my second choice out of those 5.

What were the other 8 of 10 that Vulcan and Zeus were chosen from ?
Were Federation, Romulan, Klingon, Ferengi (obvious republican choice), or Cardassian among them ?

If I got to PICK the actual name it would be either Enerjet or Hercules.

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The interesting news is the propulsion supplier is Blue Origin.

Helios and Hyperion were near the top. No other names pertaining to Star Trek.

Hyperion sounds good too.

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Yes, there is such a thing as NORMAL, if you have to ask what is "NORMAL" , you probably aren't !
Failure may not be an OPTION, but it is ALWAYS a POSSIBILITY.
ALL systems are GO for MAYHEM, CHAOS, TURMOIL, FIASCOS, and HAVOC !

How about "Boondoggle"????

1: I voted Vulcan. Eagle is okay - but that was Buzz and Neil's ride, and is also the name of an excellent fighter plane. "Freedom" is a bit cliche at this point. GalaxyOne was just stupid. Zeus needs to be a bigger rocket. Like bigger than a Saturn.

2: No specs = no rocket. They can make whatever claims they want, but until I see a complete rocket on the pad, I'm not terribly excited. How many cool "Launch Systems" (they are ROCKETS, people! Aircraft carriers have Launch systems. Missiles are fired from launch systems. The thing with all the fire coming out of the bottom is a ROCKET) have been hyped enough to get some tax dollars, then vanished in the last 10 years?

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How about Gaea (Gaia) for the Earth, since Atlas held the world on his shoulders and (figuratively speaking) would be "below" (chronologically) this successor rocket? Also, the Delta IV is going away in a few years as well, so its successor--if any--might properly rejoice in the name Delta V or, perhaps, Epsilon. (The Thor-Able-Star [whose second stage the Delta E, also called TAID--Thrust-Augmented Improved Delta--used] was also called "Thor-Epsilon," but that name never stuck.)

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That's the name of the EAC rocket flown from Wallops.

http://www.hybrids.com/hyperionI.html