The Dream Chaser Spaceplane, Sierra Space's Lifting Body That Comes Home to a Runway Like an Airliner
How Sierra Space's Dream Chaser spaceplane returns from orbit at just 1.5 g and lands on a runway like an airliner.
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Dream Chaser, the Runway-Landing Spaceplane, and Why the Shape of the Space Shuttle Refused to Die
How Sierra Space's Dream Chaser lands like an airplane on a runway, and why the Space Shuttle's lifting-body shape keeps coming back.
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Radio Hangar explores Pegasus and the Stargazer, the L Ten Eleven Airliner That Drops a Rocket Off Its Belly to Reach Orbit.
VectorThe Sierra Space Dream Chaser, Tenacity, and the Lifting-Body Spaceplane That Glides Home to a Runway Like an Airliner
Radio Hangar explores The Sierra Space Dream Chaser, Tenacity, and the Lifting-Body Spaceplane That Glides Home to a Runway Like an Airliner.
VectorDream Chaser, Tenacity, and the Winged Spaceplane Sierra Space Wants to Land on a Runway Like an Airliner
Sierra Space's Dream Chaser spaceplane, first vehicle Tenacity, aims to land from orbit on a runway like an airliner.
VectorThe Sierra Space Dream Chaser, the Lifting-Body Spaceplane That Comes Home on a Runway Like an Airplane Instead of Splashing Into the Ocean
Sierra Space's Dream Chaser is a lifting-body spaceplane that lands on a runway like an airplane, returning fragile cargo gently instead of splashing into the ocean.
VectorThe Shuttle Training Aircraft, the Gulfstream That NASA Turned Into a Flying Glider Simulator to Teach Astronauts How to Dead-Stick a Hundred-Ton Spaceship Onto a Runway
How NASA turned a Gulfstream II business jet into the Shuttle Training Aircraft to teach astronauts the impossible one-shot landing.
VectorDream Chaser, Sierra Space's Lifting-Body Spaceplane That Rides a Rocket Up and Glides Home to a Runway Like an Airliner
How Sierra Space's Dream Chaser launches vertically on a rocket and glides home to a runway like an airliner - and why it still hasn't flown.
VectorThe North American X Fifteen, the Rocket Plane That Flew to the Edge of Space on Stubby Wings and Taught Us How to Fly Where the Air Runs Out
The North American X-15 flew to Mach 6.7 and the edge of space, pioneering the hypersonic and reentry technology behind every spacecraft that followed.
VectorThe Mothership and Air-Launch to Orbit - Stratolaunch's Roc, the Six-Engine Giant That Turns a Runway Into a Spaceport, Told From the Innovation Hangars at Oshkosh
How Stratolaunch's Roc, the world's largest-wingspan aircraft, turns a runway into a spaceport through air-launch.
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