[News] Vulcan: ULA's Next Generation Launcher

[orbitingpluto]

As we all know, the hardest part of creating a new rocket is naming it, closely followed by creating the vehicle logo. So, after asking it's employees and the general public for suggestions, the ULA is taking the top choices from that and letting the internet vote on it's favorite in a poll. Press release here, and the actual poll is here.

The choices are:

Eagle

Freedom

GalaxyOne


Vote for the one you think is best, or the least bad. Just vote damn it.


Edit March 26th: Two new options, as follows:

Vulcan

Zeus

[Star Voyager]

I don't like any of the names, so here's a few of my own:

• Agon
• Eos
• Adonis (I know what you're thinking...)

[PhantomCruiser]

Egon
Spengler
Venkman
Zeddemore

Those are my submissions.

[Unstung]

I don't like any of the names either. GalaxyOne sounds silly and the other choices are too nationalistic for me, particularly Freedom*. However, out of those three I'd choose Eagle because of it shares the name of the Apollo 11 lunar module.

Naming a launch vehicle after something celestial/mythological is the most appropriate option, like Titan, Atlas, Taurus, Saturn, etc. Actually, Falcon 9 isn't bad so Eagle's pretty decent on its own.

*Thinking about it, it means the US will literally launch Freedom into space regularly.

[Codz]

Out of the group, Eagle. Especially if they throw in a reference to the Apollo 11 LM...

[K_Jameson]

IMHO, the names must be:

Delta V

or

Atlas VI...

[Urwumpe]

Quote:

Originally Posted by PhantomCruiser

 Egon
Spengler
Venkman
Zeddemore

Those are my submissions.

Its got to be three it seems... so, for something really Murican:

Billy
Dusty
Frank

[orb]

Quote:

Originally Posted by K_Jameson

 Delta V

I like this one, too. That's a really nice name for a rocket.

[PhantomCruiser]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urwumpe

 Its got to be three it seems... so, for something really Murican:

Billy
Dusty
Frank

I'd go with that, but they've got to play "Can't stop rockin'" during each launch.

[K_Jameson]

Quote:

Originally Posted by K_Jameson

 Atlas VI...

...or Voyager VI... or V'Ger...

[Kyle]

I'd have gone for Jupiter if LM hadn't stolen it first.

[statickid]

shhhhh... don't say anything but it kinda seems like there are no limits to voting. Here's a funny story:
I used my my "legitimate" vote to vote for Eagle, generally agreeing with folks on here... but then, the pole just stayed there on the screen... and GalaxyOne just seemed so amazing all of a sudden. So I voted for it about a hundred times.

[Pipcard]

Eagle sounds the best out of all three.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kyle

 I'd have gone for Jupiter if LM hadn't stolen it first.

Jupiter could've been a good name for the SLS. (There's also the Jupiter rockets, part of the DIRECT proposal of a Shuttle-derived system.)

[statickid]

Dang I went back to vote some more, got about 20 in and now it's greyed out

[K_Jameson]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pipcard

 Jupiter could've been a name for the SLS.

I'd go with "Nova"...