Jul 6 1998
From The Space Library
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS) announced that Alliant Techsystems would build composite materials, such as booster nose cones, for the Boeing Delta IV rocket at Iuka, Mississippi, a former site of the Tennessee Valley Authority and NASA. The rocket would "compete for Air Force and commercial contracts for satellite launches," while Senator Lott and U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairperson Richard Shelby (R-AL) would continue to investigate whether launching U.S. -made satellites on Chinese rockets was compromising U.S. security. Rod Bitz, the director of corporate communications for Alliant, said, "Iuka was chosen in part because the large structures can be easily shipped by barge to Decatur." Engineers at the new Boeing plant in Decatur, Alabama, would assemble the rocket.
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