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<center><br />Orbital and Rocketplane Kistler Announce Strategic Relationship<br /><br /><blockquote><p align="left"><font color="orange">Rocketplane Kistler and Orbital Sciences announced Tuesday that they have entered into a strategic relationship to support the NASA COTS program and other applications of RpK's innovative space transportation system.</font>/p></p></blockquote></center><br /><br />From the article, it appears that Orbital is taking over just about everything except building the rocket. Of course, Orbital has the experience that RpK needs and doesn't have, so this should be a good partnership.<br /><br />Any thoughts?<br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="3" color="#ff9900"><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>------------------------------------------------------------------- </em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."</em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong>Thomas Jefferson</strong></font></p></font> </div>