Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) is one step closer from allowing a human crew to fly inside the Dream Chaser spacecraft, as the vehicle passed yet another Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) milestone. While Milestone 9 has the rather mundane title of Risk Reduction and Technology Readiness Level (TRL), it provided the baby orbiter with a major review of her key systems.
As the US battles to regain its domestic crew launch capability, companies across the nation…
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) successfully completed another key milestone for their Commercial Crew Integrated Capability…
NASA’s Commercial Crew integrated Capability (CCiCap) initiative award winners were announced on Friday, with SpaceX,…
NASA has provided the milestone of “Authority to Proceed” to Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) for the…
The long-awaited return of American astronauts launching on US spacecraft, a capability last seen when…
Boeing has revealed the space suit astronauts will wear on missions aboard the Starliner spacecraft.…
Ongoing work at the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral is continuing to lay the…
SNC’s Dream Chaser crew vehicle is preparing for another California adventure, highlighted by a second…
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has successfully concluded the first of its CRS2 contract milestones, as…
Boeing is making impressive strides on a series of tests and technical verifications for their CST-100 Starliner…
NASA’s key advisory body has heaped praise on the Agency’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP), claiming…
Physical changes to a number of historic pads located on Florida’s Space Coast are progressing…
As was promised, NASA is not abandoning Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) and its Dream Chaser vehicle,…
Mission planners at NASA have installed four Commercial Crew demonstration missions into the International Space…
Boeing Vice President John Elbon believes the CST-100 spacecraft is part of an intertwined forward…
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has confirmed it will protest NASA’s Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap)…
Just weeks ago, it was widely believed both SpaceX’s Dragon V2 and SNC’s Dream Chaser…
SpaceX’s Commercial Crew contender, the Dragon V2, will initially return to terra firma under parachutes,…
As NASA closes in on the next major milestone of its Commercial Crew Program (CCP),…