A new space plane gets ready for launch from Florida
There’s a new spaceship in town.
It will remind you of the space shuttle because it takes off on a rocket and lands like a glider. The newest space plane program is called Dream Chaser, built by a company called Sierra Space and designed to make cargo runs to and from the International Space Station. The first model is named Tenacity. It arrived at the Kennedy Space Center last week, and will make its debut launch in September.
“Oh, it’s a possibility I might be flying, it’s a possibility you could be a passenger as well,” recently retired NASA astronaut Dr. Tom Marshburn told me in a Zoom interview.
Marshburn works for Sierra Space now, helping them design human-friendly living quarters.
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