The Dream Chaser mini-shuttle is due to undertake its maiden voyage on November 1st, 2016.
bbc.co.uk
The small winged vehicle is set to actively replace NASA’s space
shuttles by giving America the ability to once again send astronauts in
to space without having to rely on Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft.
Developed
by the Sierra Nevada Corporation in conjunction with NASA, the Dream
Chaser is 9m long and looks a lot like a small space shuttle. It will
launch from Florida’s Kennedy Space Centre atop an Atlus V rocket and
can carry up to seven astronauts in to low-Earth orbit before returning
to the Earth.
The Dream Chaser’s maiden unmanned voyage is set to
take place on November 1st 2016 with a manned mission to follow the
year after. It is one of three shuttle replacements currently in
development which also include Boeing’s CST-100 capsule and the SpaceX
Dragon.
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