124. TORY BRUNO, CEO of United Launch Alliance discusses Vulcan Centaur

ULA President & CEO Tory Bruno discusses the new Vulcan Centaur


In this episode we welcome Tory Bruno, the president & CEO of United Launch Alliance. Tory joins us by phone to discuss how his interest in model rockets at the age of nine years old let to him pursuing a career in aerospace engineering, beginning at Lockheed Martin until he joined ULA in 2014. Tory discusses how ULA has achieved an incredible (and unsurpassed) 100% mission success rate, as well as the development of the new Vulcan Centaur rocket, which is set to launch in 2021 on its first mission with sending a lander to the Moon!

About Tory Bruno

Salvatore T. “Tory” Bruno is the president and chief executive officer for United Launch Alliance (ULA). In this role, Tory serves as the principal strategic leader of the organization and oversees all business management and operations. ULA is the nation’s most experienced space launch company with more than 137 successful consecutive launches since 2006 and a 100% mission success rate.

About ULA's Vulcan Centaur

ULA is transforming the future of space launch, making it more affordable, accessible and commercialized with its new, next-generation rocket. Vulcan Centaur is superior in reliability, cost, weight and capability, and provides a solution for the nation’s most critical need: reliable access to space. Vulcan Centaur will do it all – affordability with higher performance – while continuing to deliver on ULA’s unparalleled reliability and precision.

For more information, visit https://www.ulalaunch.com

Special thanks to Wayward Plane of LaunchRats.com for discussing her space journey in this episode!

Interview with Tory Bruno recorded May 7, 2020.

Music: Cylinder Eight (https://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/) by Chris Zabriskie (https://chriszabriskie.com/); licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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