Dream Chaser is about a quarter of the size of a space shuttle orbiter, with roughly half of the shuttle's habitable volume. It's about 30 feet (9 meters) long, with a wingspan of 23 feet (7 meters).

Designed and built by Sierra Space at the company's headquarters in Louisville, Colorado, the first Dream Chaser spaceplane – called Tenacity – has undergone rigorous environmental testing at ...

China’s space strategy is shaped by military ambitions, aspirations for technological dominance, and ubiquitous commercial considerations. China’s Space Dream: No Limits, No End – The ...

Space travel is back in the headlines, with news that two Chinese buyers have snapped up the country’s first ever commercial space flight tickets – each paying the princely sum of 1,000,000 ...

The ship will spend a total of 45 days attached to the ISS during this first trip, almost half of the time it is technically capable of withstanding in space.

Delays, many related to COVID, have pushed the first flight of the Dream Chaser space plane to 2022.

Sierra Space’s to-do list. Dream Chaser has been in development for more than 15 years, and the concept goes back further than that. NASA kick-started the current iteration of the commercial ...

News; Nation/World; As first Vulcan flight nears, new space plane Dream Chaser preps for launch No. 2 Nov. 7, 2023 Updated Tue., Nov. 7, 2023 at 12:59 p.m. Tom Vice, CEO of Sierra Space, talks to ...

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U.S. astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are stuck on the International Space Station for the moment. How do you manage when your eight-day visit to space turns into months?

We envisioned something the size of a double-decker bus that could take up to 40 private citizens at a time into space. The module flew. But sadly, NASA quickly nixed my plan, noting it had no ...