Dream Chaser WINGS in Big Trouble, Not Launching This Year! And It's a Problem for NASA...

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One of the biggest mysteries 0:52
Not coming out in 2025!? 6:23
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Dream Chaser WINGS in Big Trouble, Not Launching This Year! And It's a Problem for NASA...
It’s been a long time coming, over two decades, in fact, since the Dream Chaser mini spaceplane first came onto the scene.
But here we are, after billions in taxpayer dollars funding and 21 years of development… and it still hasn’t flown.
That’s left a lot of space fans wondering: what’s the holdup?
Why is it taking so long? And when, if ever, will we finally see this thing take off?
Well, we’ve got some fresh updates from NASA that might give us a few answers.
Let’s break it all down, right here on today’s episode of Techmap.
Dream Chaser WINGS in Big Trouble, Not Launching This Year! And It's a Problem for NASA...
Sierra Space's Dream Chaser launch timing remains one of the biggest mysteries in the space world today. It’s honestly hard to wrap your head around the fact that such a relatively small spacecraft has been in development for over two decades. That’s a really long time.
The journey started all the way back in 2004 as a concept by a company called SpaceDev. Then in 2008, SpaceDev merged with Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC), and that’s where the Dream Chaser really began to take shape. Just two years after the merger, SNC secured its first round of NASA funding under the Commercial Crew Development program. Thanks to multiple NASA contracts, SNC was able to upgrade and evolve the design of the mini space shuttle.
Dream Chaser WINGS in Big Trouble, Not Launching This Year! And It's a Problem for NASA...
Even though Dream Chaser didn’t make it to the next phase of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, the spacecraft wasn’t left behind. Instead, it found a new purpose, delivering cargo to the International Space Station. Under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services 2 contract, Dream Chaser is committed to at least six uncrewed cargo missions to and from the ISS.
That total includes a demo flight to the ISS, known as SSC Demo-1, which also marks its very first launch. Originally, the debut was planned for 2021, but that timeline has been pushed back again and again. Now, we’re looking at no earlier than 2025 for its first operational flight.
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