'Mini-Space Shuttle' Concept - Launch To Landing | Animated Video

Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 11:01 in Astronomy & Space

Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser is one of three programs seeded by NASA for commercial crew transport to Space Station. Now in early testing, this reusable vehicle's aerodynamic shape is a descendant of NASA's X-24A lifting body flown from 1969 to 1971.

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