FTC Approves Concludes Investigation of GenCorp’s Purchase of Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, FTC “Although the FTC concluded that the deal will give GenCorp a monopoly in the market for a type of advanced missile defense interceptor propulsion system, the Commission decided not to challenge the transaction, primarily because the Department of Defense wishes to see the transaction go forward for national security reasons.”

Space Marketing Campaigns Heat Up , Commercial Space Watch (With 3 videos) “United Launch Alliance has launched another salvo in the space marketing campaign war with its latest video title “What We Believe”. Dan Collins, Chief Operating Office, opens the video saying it’s not about the “smoke and fire”, which coincidentally is what Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne called their marketing video four months ago.”

NASA Will Compete Space Launch System Boosters, Aviation Week “NASA has selected a shuttle-derived vehicle with two existing liquid-oxygen/liquid-hydrogen stages as its reference design for the heavy-lift Space Launch System that Congress has ordered it to build for exploration missions beyond low Earth orbit, but it will hold a competition between liquid- and solid-fuel boosters to get it off the pad. Administrator Charles Bolden on Wednesday endorsed the basic concept […]