ULA rocket engineer Jeff Rodgers. Not every young space cadet works for SpaceX! Credit: Jeff Rogers
In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Jeffrey Rodgers: a rocket engineer on United Launch Alliance’s Atlas program who’s had a front row seat for some of the biggest launch-industry shakeups in recent memory.
In a sense, ULA is a family business: Jeff and his wife both work for the company. Here they are at the Mercury 7 monument nearby Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Despite working on the program for years, Jeff has never seen an Atlas launch in person. Credit: Jeff Rogers Credit: Jeff Rogers In a sense, ULA is a family business: Jeff and his wife both work for the company. Here they are at the Mercury 7 monument nearby Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Despite working on the program for years, Jeff has never seen an Atlas launch in person. Credit: Jeff Rogers Credit: Jeff Rogers
Dan Leone is a SpaceNews staff writer, covering NASA, NOAA and a growing number of entrepreneurial space companies.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in public communications from the American University in Washington.
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