SpaceOps: Dream Chaser Reality Check

Sierra Space Caption: Dream Chaser Tenacity in its processing hangar at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in August 2025.

Dream Chaser Tenacity in its processing hangar at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in August.

Credit: Sierra Space
For the last 18 years, privately owned Sierra Nevada Corp. has been pitching NASA on plans to develop and fly a winged vehicle, named Dream Chaser, which evolved from the agency’s HL-20 lifting body designs of the 1990s. Between 2010-12, Sierra Nevada won three rounds of funding for Dream Chaser...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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