Tory Bruno talks about Rocket Engines and ULA's Business philosophy - Smarter Every Day 

Thanks for checking out the second channel! I would be stoked if you subscribed while you're here. Tory Bruno is a gentleman and a scholar. Checkout the main channel rocket factory tour here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-o0fG_lnVhHw.html

Tory is smart enough to understand rockets, and human enough to make it so someone like me can follow along. I like him.

"The last time we had a new warfighting domain was a hundred years ago when air was added." Sad cybersecurity noises.

Tory Bruno is a class act. I hope no one ever forgets the service he has done for his country. I say this as a serious Elon fanboi: ULA has done what they have been asked to to in the manner that they have been asked to do it.

Watching this in 2024, I need an updated interview...so many new questions

01:48 "guidance system's are always attached to the upper stage -- If you attached them to the booster and separated you would have lost your brains ..." I can neither confirm nor deny having done this in KSP.

If I was about to get launched into space in 30 seconds, and my flight computer said downloading software update, I would be cursing the dystopian future I live in.

Every company should have a CEO that knows the actual business so well. He is very much NOT an MBA drone.

One Year later I wonder how happy he is about his choice of engine.

This channel should be called "Smarter Every Other Day"

as the General would say, this video is a weapon.

first time ever the "left over footage" only made 25% as much as the main cut.... haha must be hard to cut down footage when it is all 100% quality.

Tory's competence is off-the-scale - what an impressive mind, and - judging from the way he shows up in these videos - what a powerful and inspirational leader he must be as well, at the same time as coming across as a gentle and humble man - chapeau!

Very cool, wish I'd thought of going into the space business, when I was a high school lad, we managed to launch a small payload 4 miles high. Had we staged our liquid propellant rocket and our solid propellant rocket we could have done much better than 4 miles. Rocket "safety officer" meaning Dad, did not permit us to go any higher. Not after the NY State police showed up after we launched one of our high powered amateur rockets out over Lake Ontario. Dad lost his nerve to push the envelope. The police were not wise to what we haddone as they responded to a citizen complaint that saw a fireball heading out over the lake moving at high speed and they also heard the rocket breaking the sound barrier as the thrust tapered off close to burnout. We were using spun fiberglass and spun carbon fiber tubing and graphite ceramic nozzles in 1969 long before carbon fiber was as common as today. A neighbor was an engineer for Spaulding Fibre in Western NY and we had bits and pieces tubing to our specs and tech data on their experimental tubing. Low carbon steel had been our material, much safer with composites than steel and easier to work with, pouring 2 part epoxy resins and inserting carbon/ceramic nozzles. Our liquid fuel rocket had a stainless steel un-cooled combustion chamber and nozzle and the tanks were made of aluminium and pressurized with dry ice. The oxidizer was nitric acid and the fuel was an 80/20 mix of turpentine and furfuryl alcohol. Static tested a couple of times to find minimum furfuryl that gave reliable ignition, flown once, the parachute failed. The Isp of about 240 seconds only a little higher than our solid propellants about 220 seconds. Great fun, I did the math and design, my shop skilled buddy did the machining with the help of his shop teacher. Great fun ... learned a lot. Neighbor on one side of us worked for the fibre company and on the other side of my parents house another engineer for Bell Aerospace and assigned to the RM-81 Agena B in the 1960's. I had plenty of expert help, learned how to do stress / strain calculations along with Algebra 2 and Trig for the NY Reagents exam. If anything school math was neglected during a wild construction project. I still crammed and passed the reagents at the end of the school year. A month after school let out Armstrong landed on the Moon, I felt let down, I know how the Soviets must have felt we both lost the space race.

Tory - "The last time we had a new war fighting domain was 100 years ago when air was added." Cyber - "Am I a joke to you?"

"Too big to fail" comment was perfect. As was his response.

He never actually mentioned SpaceX or "Elon" by name or anything like that. He has great diplomatic skills.

Usually I feel annoyed that every youtube video stretches something insignificant to 10+ minutes. With this video, it actually has great content for every second of it.

Im No engieer, but i think thats why i love this channel. Anyone can learn and understand. This is so cool that its stupid. I love it Cheers from Sweden 🇸🇪

This dude is special, he knows every single detail in the R&D department, but hes also a master at economics of scale and in general. Awesome, I want more of him please

A very big thank you to Tory for taking Destin (and us) through his factory!

So, Destin, any plans to go tour other companies' factories and explore the differences in the manufacturing process?

Amazing interview. I like his answers to questions about SpaceX and am also glad you asked and didn't chicken out from the elephant in the room. Great

Hearing "Space as a warfighting domain" is heartbreaking. Wouldn't it be nice if earth was smart enough to unite and work together? I'm going back to Alpha Centauri.

The way he simplifies and explains complicated things in clear and concise manner really tells you that he truly know his stuff.

Cool interview, but now I'm curious in the tricycle labeled "Atlas Booster" in the background.

Having studied politics and business in college, I appreciated the discussion presented here, especially in the latter half of this video. I appreciate the cooperation between competitors to get the quantity of components produced to the scale where they become more affordable, and I found the global security tactics / international diplomacy of the USA getting a domestic company buy ex-Soviet engines to counter the potential for ballistic missile weapons proliferation to be fascinating.

TIL there's more competition in the rocketry industry than in the semiconductor industry

These guys are on another level. I consider myself moderately smart, I kinda get what he's talking about, then you ask a really specific question back about something I didnt even quite realize he was talking about... makes me quickly realize "moderately smart" is a very relative term :p

13:44 Tory Bruno doing the Jedi hand wave: "that we're not talking about today"

I'm a high school economics teacher and I've been putting off watching the rocket videos because I didn't think it would be interested and one of them was an hour long! Once I started watching though, I couldn't get enough. Tory was incredible and your excitement for what you were seeing and learning was contagious. I knew nothing about rockets or space travel but these videos have been my favorite of all your videos.

ULA is very fortunate to have Tory running the show. Thanks for the insight into his domain.

Such an intelligent man, he can pretty much fill in to do any task if someone calls in sick. Haha Great interview Dustin 👏🏾👏🏾

Someone on the NSF forums (not me) noticed something. Pause at 3:30 and look just above the bottom of the window- "Where we're going, we don't need roads"

Tory Bruno. What a great CEO. His in depth detailed knowledge in so many different aspects of his industry is simply AMAZING.

Woohoo, that was a fantastic video with so much insight! I'm so happy you set this up!

What an amazing and charismatic person Tory is it’s a joy listening to him

Great interview, oh but I wish you asked about reusability

Love the extra info here, thanks

Thank you so much for these videos Destin, they are awesome. Loved em.

Fascinating! Watched both of these videos from end to end and I still wanna keep watching. I mean how often do you get to see something like this!

I have really enjoyed these videos, thank you so much Destin for these amazing exciting peeks behind the curtains of rocket engineering. Seriously, this stuff gets me so excited about what we can do/are doing :)

Incredibly impressed by Tory. He knows so many details about the technical components AND he can explain the economic and financial parts of these insanely complex projects. Crazy brilliant.

I love your passion you have and love both channels! Keep up the good work

An Hour & about 10 minutes well spent! Really enjoyed the 50 odd minute video, this stuff is fascinating and bravo Destin :)

I've really enjoyed this series with Tory, including the launch pad video. Thanks for putting this out there for our enjoyment. I have a feeling that you enjoyed it quite a bit yourself lol

Your unlimited passion is just lovely, Destin!

Came here after watching the factory tour. Love his knowledge and humble approach. He enjoys when you are asking relevant questions and seems to be excited when you have learned something. Thanks for bringing us along.

This and the other video are my favorite videos from SmarterEveryDay. The excitement is contagious and Tory is just an amazing interviewee. Thank you. (I've watched both 3 times now! )

I worked in Aerospace for 22 years. I've watched a lot of your videos. This is probably my favorite. A question, the longitudinal friction stir welds ... do they not require reinforcement with additional structure? It doesn't seem like they would be as strong as the ISO grid. Also, please make a video on explosive bolts or however they separate stages, bolt on boosters, etc. They have to be extreme reliability and not send shrapnel the wrong direction. Tory would be a very cool guy to work for. He knows the science and a lot of CEOs don't, they are more business oriented. You can tell he's a people person too. He must have the people who work for him willing to get any job done. I can literally see how this video could get a lot of young people interested in engineering, rockets, and aerospace. Great job!

Awesome! Loved both videos!

Tory Bruno is awesome! Thank you for these interviews Destin!

Re: Mr. Bruno's comments concerning SpaceX, let's clarify a bit. First, ULA was part of the reason SpaceX sued the gov't 6 years ago for the latter's unfair business practices. This is a suit that SpaceX won and also hurt ULA's business. And late last year, SpaceX launched (pun definitely intended) another suit against the gov't and again, ULA is part of the reason for the lawsuit. The bottom line is that without SpaceX, there would be zero impetus...and therefore progress...toward lowering costs in the the space launch market. And for anyone paying attention or who cares about the longevity of civilian space programs (i.e. NON military related), then organizations like SpacesX are a massive blessing and something we simply must have. Otherwise, exploratory space programs will always be up for the budget axe...

Wow...what a tour. Thanks for the expose', Dustin !! Love this channel,....to infinity and beyond !!

What a great couple of videos featuring ULA. Thanks for going to the effort!!

Today I learned there is a second channel. The main video was -- by far -- my favorite so far and I'm excited about this one as well.

Great video. Loved the way Bruno allowed himself to be drawn out where necessary for more complete in depth answers. These are 2 amazing interview videos. Thank you for your communication skills and knowledge and your willingness to share them. Hubby an me.

This was one of the best videos, presentation was great. I felt like I was walking with you too, just taking in all the info. Thanks. Oh I'm 65yrs old.

I loved this video, thanks for asking all these great questions Destin!

I could listen to him all day! That interview was fascinating!

This is absolutely amazing.

Tory Burno is an incredible human. He seems to be a master of business, history, mechanical engineering, aviation, spoken communications, and education. And he really comes across as just a genuine buddy. I'm glad you had the opportunity for this interview and thanks for sharing!

Thank you for both of the videos

This was super interesting. Thank you for making this! And thanks to everyone involved to make this video happen!

Why doesn't Tony Bruno get as much press and praise as Elon Musk? He appears to be down to earth, intelligent, not condescending, and really knows his business. He is very interesting to listen to and knows ULA's reputation speaks for itself and he doesn't have to do any fancy gimmicks. Is there any wonder why many sensitive and very high priced payloads fly with ULA. SpaceX is doing great things, but ULA deserves as much if not more credit for what they have done and what they are doing.

This series was awesome! I honestly have been sitting here, watching this series, gobsmacked. The level of detail that you two covered was exactly what I wanted to watch. My inner geek was screaming with excitement! I wish the videos could have been even longer. Props to Tory as well. I've met leaders in the past who barely understood what their companies do. Tory on the other hand was just as knowledgeable as every member of his staff for each process. That's dedication right there. I cant wait for more videos to come out. Keep up the great work Destin!

This was an excellent follow-up to the ULA factory tour!! Tory Bruno seems like one heck of an interesting, bright guy and a real patriot. Thank you, Destin, for interviewing him. I enjoyed this tremendously. You definitely earned my subscription!

A great addition to a great video! thank you again!!!

This channel is amazing, you're amazing, and Mr. Bruno and the entire ULA team is amazing. It is so refreshing to see technical concepts broken down into plain English, and it is so nice to see American engineers and technicians doing cutting-edge stuff to protect our way of life and serve humanity. Cynics may disagree, but those two concepts are not mutually exclusive. I hope your videos inspire others to study hard, work hard, and dream big! Thank you!

Awesome! This is why I like ULA. Tory is a humble guy and took the time to do a in-depth tour that he didn’t have to do. Thank you for this.

great vid - Tory is a great guy - loves what he does and sharing what he does

I just loved these two videos so much.

Wow! I don’t comment on videos but i felt I needed to commend this video. This video is unbelievably insightful in this industry. Thanks Mr Bruno for being candid and detailed. I find it fascinating how constrained technology and industries are based on controlling politics and wonder how much more developed we (humans) would be if capitalism functioned correctly at all levels.

I didn't even know you HAD a second channel, duh is me. Cheers for the videos, I never lose interest when I watch them, unlike many others on RU-vid.

Amazing material! love it

In the 70's when data leaked out from behind the iron curtain about those engines it was run past NASA and declared to be counter intel. Literally unbelievably high performance for the era.

12:00 The bike is called "Atlas Booster" xd

1:23 Destin: "So the brains that drive the Centaur, where's that at?" Me: "Is it in the human part or the horse part?"

Great video. Enjoyed it!

THE LAST MINUTES WERE FU*KIN' AWESOME!!!! THANKS MATE! LOVED IT!

he literally made space x look like a kid , without even saying a bad word ! only a great CEO could achieve that kind of diplomacy !

At 14:38; Thats me. Thanks D!

I just watched both videos, back to back. It’s not often that something keeps my interest for more than a few minutes, let alone for over an hour! Great job Destin and thank you Mr. Bruno for sharing your time and passion.

Looked at both videos, loved them. This is awesome work!

Absolutely loved this and the long version, please do more of this! Such an amazing person Tory is.

"Not a lot" is still 365k+ subscribers. 😯

Once again Fantastic !!

I could listen to this guy talk for hours. Awesome interview.

Is there a "Spock" component planned for any part of the "Vulcan" series engines? (Live long and propel!)

Tory is not only a gentleman and a scholar, but he's The Dude. And by rockets he abides.

I wish it continued it got really interesting in the end, but the whole interview was awesome. Thanks for the info!

Thanks again, really good to see this extra content

There's a word that FIRST Robotics uses for it's competitions: Coopertition Imo, rolls off the tongue a bit better than "Competimate" :)

Multi Domain Operations... Hey! I saw an awesome video about that... now... which channel was it? 🤣

What a epic tour! You are so super lucky to have experienced all that... Keep up the awesome vids!

Great video’s!! I really love it!

So If I understand this correctly, every ULA rocket is essentially a one-off, specced and to do the job it's tasked with. Whereas SpaceX is more "off the shelf" so to speak. The military/government likes the ULA method because it maximizes the potential of their mission, and cost isn't quite as important to them. Businesses like SpaceX 'cause they're cheap and fast, but may have to compromise on some things.

Wow! I didn't know that Scott Manley was running ULA! Cheers!

OMG, that was such a cool conversation!

Great second channel. Thank you for these awesome videos. Tory Bruno and you make a good team!