Dream Chaser underwent its first flight test today
The competition heats up: Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser mini-shuttle underwent its first flight test today in Colorado.
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The competition heats up: Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser mini-shuttle underwent its first flight test today in Colorado.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Now we’re rolling.
Why couldn’t NASA do this 20 years ago?
It looks like one of the old Airforce/NASA lifting body aircraft they tested for years back before the shuttle was first flown.
I guess Steve Austin will be the first pilot. How he lands this one better.
A cheap small taxi/cargo truck style craft.
Launchable from small rockets already in use.
The references to the opening of the “Six Million Dollar Man” TV series are appropriate here. The real problem with lifting bodies is the low speed stability requirements for landing.
That is the reason they were not pursued after extensive testing in the 1960’s. I wish Sierra Nevada luck, but we will see how it all turns out.
IIRC it is a NASA design, much like the Bigellow habs. Maybe our advancements in computers and avionics have made it possible. Sort of like the flying wing.