Post by glactus on Dec 17, 2011 3:28:43 GMT
The dreamchaser space craft
Sierra Nevada" Dreamchaser will begin testing in Huntersville. Alabama. The company will perform wind tunnel teats on the space craft at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center to evaluate aerodynamic and other flight criteria relating to the space craft.
A Dreamchaser view
The Dream Chaser is a crewed suborbital and orbital vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing(VTHL) lifting-body spaceplane being developed by SpaceDev a wholly owned subsidiary of Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC). The Dream Chaser design is planned to carry seven people to and from low earth orbit. The vehicle would launch vertically on an Atlas V rocket and land horizontally on conventional runways
The Dreamchaser in flight
To see 5 Minute & 22 second video of the Dreamchaser just click on the link below. Has sound. Full screen option bottom right.
www.engineeringtv.com/video/The-Dream-Chaser-Shuttle-from-S;National-Space-Symposium-2011-V
Credits: Sierra Nevada Corporation
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Text by wikipedia
Video by Engineeringtv.com