Another Russian Rocket Failure

[Eric Mc]

This is getting embarrassing -

http://spaceflightnow.com/2015/05/16/proton-crash-...

[Eric Mc]

The rocket that failed today was a Proton - which is not the rocket used for launching the manned Soyuz craft.

[Eric Mc]

A lot of it seems to be with a poorly trained workforce and poor quality control.

[Eric Mc]

Owned?

Why do you say that?

[Eric Mc]

There's room for them all. Nobody is out to "crush" anybody.

[Eric Mc]

Are you saying that after 60 plus years of rocket designing and building in the US the end result will eventually only be one manufacturer? Or, if a "zero sum game" do you mean none at all?

At the moment there are at least five manufacturers in the US - which is more or less where we were in the early 1960s.