Late last month Dream Chaser, a commercial U.S. space plane, received no mention during NASA’s in-depth “Ignition” briefing, ...

COLORADO SPRINGS—Sierra Space is attaching the last batch of thermal protection tiles to its Dream Chaser “Tenacity” vehicle prior to a final integrated fight software load test this summer that is ...

American company Sierra Space said it completed launch acoustic testing of the Dream Chaser space plane, first flight planned ...

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The private Dream Chaser space plane took to the skies Tuesday (May 29), kicking off a flight-test program that will vet the vehicle's ability to carry astronauts to and from low-Earth orbit. The ...

You will, it is hoped, forgive the fanciful name: the Dream Chaser. But there is something distinctly aspirational about the shrink-wrapped experimental spacecraft that arrived at Edwards Air Force ...

For years, Sierra Space has been working on Dream Chaser, primarily out of sight while plans changed and deadlines faltered. The corporation decided to take an alternative route for the spaceplane's ...

This story was updated at 9:49 a.m. EDT. The new spaceship being built by private aerospace firm Sierra Nevada Corp. may look like a miniature space shuttle, but while the design takes cues from the ...