Sierra Space's Dream Chaser is a lifting body spacecraft designed to survive orbital reentry and land on a runway - a technical challenge that bridges aircraft and spacecraft engineering.
Virgin Galactic is crowdsourcing the name of its next-generation Delta class spaceplane - a move that signals both community strategy and a full commercial reset.
Dream Chaser is the first orbital spacecraft designed to land at a conventional airport runway, blurring the line between spaceflight and aviation infrastructure.