It's a sensible alliance -- the ULA has been the government's preferred rocket provider for awhile now, while Blue Origin is striving to build better rockets for a lower price point. Still, it'll be awhile before we see capsules climbing on Blue Origins engines: the plan is to develop and test the BE-4 over the next four years. Full scale testing isn't expected until 2016, and the rocket even fly until 2019. Still, that's right on schedule, and the firms expect the rocket to be an integral part of our nation's next-generation launch setup.