The SpaceDev Dream Chaser is a planned crewed suborbital and orbital spacecraft being developed by SpaceDev. Dream Chaser will be able to carry six to eight people to and from space. The vehicle launches vertically and lands horizontally on conventional runways.
The Dream Chaser was publicly announced on September 20, 2004 as candidate for NASA's Vision for Space Exploration and later Commercial Orbital Transportation Services Program.
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The SpaceDev Dream Chaser is a planned crewed suborbital and orbital spacecraft being developed by SpaceDev. Dream Chaser will be able to carry six to eight people to and from space. The vehicle launches vertically and lands horizontally on conventional runways.
The Dream Chaser was publicly announced on September 20, 2004 as candidate for NASA's Vision for Space Exploration and later Commercial Orbital Transportation Services Program.
When the Dream Chaser was not selected under Phase 1 of the COTS Program, SpaceDev founder Jim Benson stepped down as Chairman of SpaceDev and started Benson Space Company to pursue the development of the Dream Chaser.
In April 2007, SpaceDev announced that it had partnered with the United Launch Alliance to pursue the possibility of utilizing the Atlas V booster rocket as the Dream Chaser's launch vehicle.
The original design concept calls for a spaceplane with a single hybrid rocket engine, launching vertically from the ground. Current plans are to...
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