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PHOTOS: Dream Chaser Delivered to Edwards AFB for Next Flight Test
It has been just over a year now since NASA announced the winners of their multi-billion dollar second round of Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-2) contracts to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) from 2019 through 2024. SpaceX and Orbital ATK both secured contracts, but Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC), who was not selected by NASA for a big commercial crew contract in 2014, was […] More
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Now You Don’t: 25 Years Since the Mysterious Mission of STS-36 (Part 2)
A quarter-century has now passed since one of the quietest missions in the shuttle’s 30-year operational history. On 28 February 1990, the orbiter Atlantis and her STS-36 crew—Commander John “J.O.” Creighton, Pilot John Casper, and Mission Specialists Mike Mullane, Dave Hilmers, and Pierre Thuot—rocketed into orbit for four days of activities on behalf of the […] More
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Sierra Nevada Outlines Challenges and Opportunities for Landing Dream Chaser at Public Airports
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) may not have been awarded a multi-billion dollar commercial crew contract by NASA, but that isn’t stopping the company from moving forward with plans for their Dream Chaser. The fact is the spacecraft’s unique lifting-body winged design offers numerous potential applications that no other existing spacecraft can, and the aerospace community […] More
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‘A Big Mental Switch’: The Maiden Voyage of Endeavour (Part 2)
Twenty-two years ago, on 7 May 1992, the last virgin space shuttle speared for the heavens. Orbiter Vehicle-105 (OV-105), better known as “Endeavour,” had arisen from a set of structural spares and had been assembled to replace her late sister, Challenger. With the possible exception of Columbia—who flew the very first shuttle mission in April 1981—there […] More
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NASA F/A-18 Hornets Conduct Vital Testing for SLS Flight Control System
For some time now work has been under way to develop NASA’s replacement launch vehicle for the agency’s retired space shuttle fleet, the Space Launch System (SLS for short). The mammoth rocket will be the most powerful and capable heavy-lift launch vehicle ever designed, and last week a NASA F/A-18 Hornet research jet conducted the […] More
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Dream Chaser’s First Flight a Historic Success Despite Landing Gear Issue
On Saturday, Oct. 26, Sierra Nevada Corporation put their Dream Chaser engineering test article through its first free flight Approach and Landing test, or ALT-1, at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in southern California. The important flight test, a first since the late 1970s with NASA’s space shuttle test article Enterprise, performed flawlessly up until the command […] More
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Dream Chaser Suffers Landing Gear Failure After First Free Flight Test
On Saturday, Oct. 26, Sierra Nevada Corporation put their Dream Chaser test article through its first free flight Approach and Landing test, or ALT, at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in southern California. The important flight test appears to have gone as expected until an anomaly was encountered with the left landing gear deployment, which […] More
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Dream Chaser Back On Track for Free Flight Tests by End of the Year
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC), the company developing the Dream Chaser spaceflight vehicle, is back on track to conduct a series of Approach and Landing tests (ALT) after the government shutdown halted work at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in California earlier this month. With the shutdown now over, work has resumed to complete pre-flight qualifications […] More
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‘To Launch Americans Into Space’: The Voyage of STS-26 (Part 2)
Setting aside the enormity of the fact that STS-26 would be the first shuttle voyage after a major disaster, the mission was relatively straightforward—a “vanilla flight”—since it would be just four days long and feature the deployment of the third Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-C) atop an Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) booster to […] More
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‘Americans Return to Space’: The Voyage of STS-26 (Part 1)
Twenty-five years have now passed since the voice of launch commentator Hugh Harris exulted “Americans return to space” on the morning of 29 September 1988, as Space Shuttle Discovery broke the shackles of Earth and took flight. Her seventh voyage into orbit would last for four days, carry few secondary experiments, and deploy a Tracking […] More
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‘How About Now?’ The Faith in Gordon Cooper (Part 1)
Fifty years ago, on 15 May 1963, America launched astronaut Gordon Cooper on its longest manned space mission to date. In doing so, NASA began to take strides toward meeting President John Kennedy’s goal of landing a man on the Moon before the end of the decade. The humiliation of Yuri Gagarin’s orbital flight had been met […] More
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NASA’s Dryden Center Might be Renamed for Neil Armstrong
Earlier this week, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would honor Neil Armstrong; NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center would be renamed for the first man to walk on the Moon. But it’s not a done deal just yet. The bill still has to go through the Senate before being signed into law by President Obama. More
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