Posted on 05/05/2021 9:33:58 AM PDT by rktman
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., May 4 (UPI) -- The Dream Chaser spaceplane, a cargo spacecraft built and operated by Nevada-based Sierra Nevada Corp., is to begin launching and landing in Florida in 2022, NASA and the company announced Tuesday.
The uncrewed, robotic spaceplane will be launched aboard a United Launch Alliance rocket from Kennedy Space Center for flights to the International Space Station.
Once it docks and delivers cargo, Dream Chaser will return to the space center's former space shuttle landing strip.
The first Dream Chaser is being prepared for delivery to the space center next spring, Janet Kavandi, a former astronaut and an executive vice president of Sierra Nevada, said during a press conference Tuesday on the landing strip.
"When we first launch next year, 2022, at the end of that mission, we plan to come back and land here at this very runway," Kavandi said.
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How is it launched?....................
The uncrewed, robotic spaceplane will be launched aboard a United Launch Alliance rocket from Kennedy Space Center for flights to the International Space Station.
Wonder if “Space Command” is developing a space fighter to take out enemy surveillance satellites. Would be an absolute necessity in war or surface combatant ships could not function or survive.
“That rocket will be ULA’s new Vulcan Centaur, which is being developed.”
https://www.space.com/nasa-vulcan-centaur-ula-rocket-contract
Robots need a cockpit?
If it’s ‘uncrewed’, then why does it have windows?..................
Now where is “Col. Steve Austin” (Six Million Dollar Man - before inflation)...?
And shouldn’t a “dream chaser” be more round, and have feathers?
Wait a minute—I thought the Space Station was being de-commissioned.
Is this going to be the plane to nowhere?
https://www.livescience.com/russia-leaving-international-space-station.html
Wait a minute—I thought the Space Station was being de-commissioned.
Is this going to be the plane to nowhere?
https://www.livescience.com/russia-leaving-international-space-station.html
Not compatible with ios 14?
Actually looks like this —
https://youtu.be/0CPJ-AbCsT8
The real deal - Northrop M2-F2 1967 Crash
https://youtu.be/JrETaU9wfho
Amazing test footage —
https://youtu.be/KsMLQh_X9hM
https://youtu.be/9ryTTCDrR2E
I wonder if Domino’s will now deliver to the Space Station?
Oh yah, tgat’s right...
Always thought they looked more like bird catchers -
There are two versions: The uncrewed Cargo System, and the crewed Space System.
https://www.sncorp.com/what-we-do/dream-chaser-space-vehicle/
Chicoms are putting one up.
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