SNC Dream Chaser Testing Begins at NASA's

NASA-It's a busy week for NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) and its partner Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Space Systems. On the west coast of the United States, NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif., welcomed the Dream Chaser flight vehicle, also known as an engineering test article, today to begin tests of its flight and runway systems.

On the east coast, several NASA astronauts will be at the agency's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., this week to fly simulations of a Dream Chaser approach and landing to help evaluate the spacecraft's subsonic handling. -NASA