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Dream Chaser confusion!


MrZayas1

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Today I was reading some articles on the X-37b spacecraft by boeing, and I saw a link to the Dream Chaser spacecraft. I had known what it was, and what it's plans were, but I decided to click anyway. Strangely the last time I read anything about the Dream Chaser, it was apparently a cancelled project. But, today on the Wiki it mentions nothing about cancellation, and speaks about plans made or conversations in 2014. Was the Dream Chaser resurrected in some way? Or is this false? Please let me know, I am a big fan of the Dream Chaser and it is looking to be a beautiful peice of engineering! Thanks in advance :)

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It was never cancelled - it just did not win a slot in NASA's commercial crew program. But even before the selections were announced, Sierra Nevada Corp said that they would like to try and finish it regardless of the outcome.

They're going to need some sort of customer for it though...

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They still have some milestones that were funded by the early phases of the CCDev program, a couple of drop tests I think. They still need to do those.

Beyond that, the project is pretty much stalled. No customer means no money to launch it. It still needs an Atlas V to be of any use.

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