Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Space Systems' Dream Chaser flight vehicle is lifted by an Erickson Air-Crane helicopter near the Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Jefferson County, Colo., on May 29, during a captive-carry test.
A private space plane is slated to fly on its own for the first time in
the next six to eight weeks, a key drop-test milestone in the vehicle's
quest to fly astronauts on roundtrip space missions.
The Dream Chaser spacecraft,
built by aerospace firm Sierra Nevada Corp., will be released by a
carrier helicopter at an altitude of 12,000 feet (3,657 meters) or so,
then fly back and land autonomously on a runway at NASA's Dryden Flight
Research Center in California.
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