Posted on 03 August 2012. Tags: crew transportation, exploration technologies, international space station, internatoinal space station, kennedy space center, kennedy spcae center, sierra nevada corporation, space act agreements, space-transportation
RELEASE : 12-263 NASA Announces Next Steps In Effort To Launch Americans From U.S. Soil CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA Friday announced new agreements with three American commercial companies to design and develop the next generation of U.S. human spaceflight capabilities, enabling a launch of astronauts from U.S. soil in the next five years. Advances made [...]
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Posted on 06 June 2012. Tags: commercial capabilities, conventional runway, critical milestones, critical milsetones, international space station, moving in the right direction, preliminary design reveiw, preliminary design review, sierra nevada corporation
RELEASE : 12-186 NASA Partner Sierra Nevada Completes Preliminary Design Review Of Dream Chaser Vehicle To Transport Astronauts LOUISVILLE, Colo. — Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Space Systems has successfully completed a preliminary design review (PDR) of the design, architecture and performance of its Dream Chaser orbital crew vehicle. This marks a new milestone in the [...]
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Posted on 31 May 2012. Tags: conventional runway, crew transportation, international space statino, international space station, metropolitan airport, metropolitan airprot, sierra nevada corporation
RELEASE : 12-180 NASA’S Commercial Crew Partner Sierra Nevada Corporation Completes Dream Chaser Flight Test Milestone LOUISVILLE, Colo. — Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Space Systems successfully completed a “captive carry test” of its full-scale Dream Chaser orbital crew vehicle Tuesday, marking a new milestone in the company’s effort to develop transportation for astronauts to low [...]
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Posted on 07 May 2012. Tags: international space station, pressuer transducers, pressure fluctuations, pressure transducers, sierr anevada corporation, sierra nevada corporation, transonic dynamics tunnel, wind tunnel testing
The Dream Chaser model with its Atlas V launch vehicle is undergoing final preparations at the Aerospace Composite Model Development Section’s workshop for buffet tests at the Transonic Dynamics Tunnel at NASA Langley. The scale model is being tested as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Development program to regain the American capability to launch astronauts [...]
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