NASA has effectively stepped back from a flagship commercial spaceplane it once touted as part of the future of space station logistics, reshaping the trajectory of a program that has absorbed roughly ...

NASA’s long-promised space plane is finally on the cusp of leaving the runway behind and heading for orbit, a decade after the agency first backed the concept. The lifting-body vehicle known as Dream ...

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American company Sierra Space said it completed launch acoustic testing of the Dream Chaser space plane, first flight planned for Q4 2026.

Late last month Dream Chaser, a commercial U.S. space plane, received no mention during NASA’s in-depth “Ignition” briefing, which set out the agency’s comprehensive plans to return to the moon. Dream ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In order to get a spaceship in top-notch condition for its first trip to space, a lot of things must be done just right. Including a huge number of tests that tell engineers if everything is primed to ...