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The '''Advanced Launch System''' (ALS) was a joint USAF and NASA study from 1987-1990 that began during the post-Challenger period. Colonel John R. Wormington (Brig. Gen., USAF, Ret.) was assigned as program director of the Joint Department of Defense and NASA Advanced Launch System Program Office located at Los Angeles, CA AFB.
==The program==
The (ALS) was a joint USAF and NASA study from 1987-1990 that began during the post-Challenger period. Colonel John R. Wormington (Brig. Gen., USAF, Ret.) was assigned as program director of the Joint Department of Defense and NASA Advanced Launch System Program Office located at Los Angeles, CA AFB, with Lt Col Michael C. Mushala (Maj. Gen., USAF, Ret.) as his Deputy Program Director. Mushala was promoted to Colonel in October 1989, and became Program Director when Wormington was reassigned as commander of the Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick AFB, FL in February 1990. Col Mushala closed out the program and the System Program Office (SPO) was disbanded in July 1990 with remaining propulsion development efforts being managed by NASA alone. Total cost of this R&D effort was slightly under $3 Billion as it ended earlier than originally planned.
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