When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.
After nearly 12 years leading the United Launch Alliance (ULA), its chief Tory Bruno is stepping down from the U.S. rocket launch provider to pursue "another opportunity," the company announced this week.
What's that new opportunity? We're not sure yet, but it's guaranteed to be "Something interesting," Bruno wrote on social media after the Dec. 22 announcement.
Bruno took the reigns as ULA president and CEO in August 2014, overseeing the company, a collaboration between Lockheed Martin and Boeing, as it launched its Atlas V rockets and retired its Delta rocket family. He oversaw the development of new booster, the Vulcan Centaur rocket, which ULA plans to use as a workhorse vehicle.
During Bruno's term, ULA fought to contend with launch competitor SpaceX, which successfully landed a Falcon 9 booster for the first time in 2015 to lower costs through reusability. SpaceX now regularly launches and lands Falcon 9 rockets and has flown over 160 times this year. ULA eventually hopes to recover and reuse only part of the Vulcan rocket, its BE-4 first stage engines built by Blue Origin.
"It has been a great privilege to lead ULA through its transformation and to bring Vulcan into service. My work here is now complete and I will be cheering ULA on," Bruno wrote on X.
"Finished the mission I came to do," he added. "Great people. Great rocket. New things coming."
In a statement, Robert Lightfoot and Kay Sears, the ULA board chairs for Lockheed Martin and Boeing, respectively, thanked Bruno for over a decade of service.
"We are grateful for Tory’s service to ULA and the country, and we thank him for his leadership," Lightfoot and Sears wrote in the statement.
ULA's board has appointed Boeing veteran John Elbon as interim CEO as the search for a new leader begins.
"We have the greatest confidence in John to continue strengthening ULA’s momentum while the board proceeds with finding the next leader of ULA," Lihtfoot and Sears wrote.
latest_posts
- 1
Noctourism: the new safari travel trend that's changing the wildlife we can photograph in Africa - 25 Christmas movies to stream for less with this Paramount+ Black Friday deal
- 3'Set up an Army Radio station at President’s Residence': Source close to Katz slams Herzog
- 4From Loner to Force to be reckoned with: Individual Accounts of Change
- 5Was This Driver Simply Having Some good times Or Behaving Like An Ass?
- Where America’s CO2 emissions come from – what you need to know, in charts
- The most effective method to Pick the Ideal Lab Precious stone Wedding band
- Artemis 2 astronauts head for the moon after make-or-break engine burn (video)
- Nodding off is dangerous. Some animals have evolved extreme ways to sleep in precarious environments
- Eli Lilly weight-loss drug appears to suppress binge-eating signal, small study finds
- Best Amusement Park Bite: What Do You Very much want to Crunch On?
- 37 Things Just Individuals Experiencing childhood during the 80s Will Comprehend
- With more Moon missions on the horizon, avoiding crowding and collisions will be a growing challenge
- What is a Trump Gold Card? U.S. launches $1 million immigration visas
