Video: Here’s the US military’s secret new ‘Dream Chaser’ space plane

American Military News ^ | 9/13/22 | Liz George

[markman46]

dream chaser is not a secret serria space has been around a long time now, bid on the commerical contract to send crew and supplies to the ISS

[gnarledmaw]

Steve Austin, astronaut,
a man barely alive.

Gentleman, we can rebuild him.
We have the technology.
We have the capability to build the worlds first bionic man.
Steve Austin will be that man, better than he was before.
Better, stronger, faster.

[Delta 21]

Electric rockets! Elon hasn’t even figured that out yet.

[pelican001]

NASA missions should be all electric by 2035.

[epluribus_2]

Another Bug Hunt, I guess.

[dragnet2]

The government is building this when they have super advanced craft and technology that can defy the laws of physics? Right.

[DesertRhino]

Secret? They had one sitting in the wings over the Rockies museum in Denver for about the last four years.

[PIF]

Too expensive, too few people. Besides that’s SpaceX’s Starship territory - more, a tot more people much cheaper.

[teletech]

What! It’s not electric?

[FreedomPoster]

But this isn't the Navy, so it's ENTIRELY different.

Right!?

[VTenigma]

You mean it won’t be “a stand up fight”?

[doorgunner69]

Reusable?

Do you ask the bad guys in the trouble spot to let you come and take it home?

What sort of runway is suitable and what makes anyone think one will be available near the trouble spot?

[doorgunner69]

“in progressively higher and higher orbits.”

That uses a lot of fuel, no?

[Getready]

Looks like a horseshoe crab.

[Wuli]

“That uses a lot of fuel, no?”

I am just guessing it could be less energy to slowly defy gravity in gradually higher orbits; but maybe I am wrong.

[Nifster]

Nah

[Nifster]

Precisely

[mcshot]

I remember Flash Gordon.

[Tallguy]

Another piece of high-speed, Low-drag gear for US Special Forces.

[Tallguy]

Probably a suitcase nuke.