Multispindle heads blast through rocket parts.

To maintain an aggressive production schedule, a major aerospace company jettisons its in-house multispindle gearbox manufacturing operations.

If the market dictates, more rocket will propel skyward in the next six years than during a Fourth of July fireworks display. The U Air Force and private customers ne vehicles to carry communications and positioning satellites into space. And this growing demand has forced Boeing to ramp up its Delta IV rocket program.

The company awaits so much work that it built a fresh 1.5 million-[ft.sup.12] facility in Decatur, Ala., to