Comments on: Sierra Nevada provides an update on the condition of its Dream Chaser test vehicle after this weekend’s glide flight and bad landing. https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/sierra-nevada-provides-an-update-on-the-condition-of-its-dream-chaser-test-vehicle-after-this-weekends-glide-flight-and-bad-landing/ Tue, 29 Oct 2013 06:38:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: joe https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/sierra-nevada-provides-an-update-on-the-condition-of-its-dream-chaser-test-vehicle-after-this-weekends-glide-flight-and-bad-landing/#comment-115660 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 06:38:09 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=25605#comment-115660 In reply to Blair Ivey.

It appears to be a very robust design, damaged or not, the data and information that the engineers acquired with this flight test are worth the risk of damage, this is still very early in testing regimes.

]]> By: Blair Ivey https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/sierra-nevada-provides-an-update-on-the-condition-of-its-dream-chaser-test-vehicle-after-this-weekends-glide-flight-and-bad-landing/#comment-115644 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 04:47:36 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=25605#comment-115644 Based on the contract language, the flight did appear to meet the letter of the law.

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1310/26dreamchaser/#.Um88r1PORj4

]]> By: Blair Ivey https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/sierra-nevada-provides-an-update-on-the-condition-of-its-dream-chaser-test-vehicle-after-this-weekends-glide-flight-and-bad-landing/#comment-115643 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 04:39:56 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=25605#comment-115643 “We learned everything we wanted to on this test, and learned more than we expected to learn,”

Or, I imagine, wanted to learn.

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