spaceflight, #WashingtonPost 📆 June 22, 2022 #ULA (United Launch Alliance) - a #company that had enjoyed a #monopoly 🤑 for years and had gotten #complacent. #Not having to #compete, it extracted #enormous #sums 💰 from the #Pentagon, which didn’t flinch at the #exorbitant #prices as long as the company kept up its #launch #success https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/22/ula-boeing-lockheed-martin-tory-bruno