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NASA partner Sierra Nevada Corporation tests Nose Landing Gear for Dream Chaser Spacecraft

 

Written by Candrea Thomas
NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center

NASA - National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationKennedy Space Center, FL – NASA partner Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has completed a successful test of the nose landing gear for its full-scale Dream Chaser engineering flight test vehicle. The completed test and an upcoming flight test are part of SNC’s Commercial Crew Development Round 2 (CCDev2) agreement with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.

The gear test is an important milestone to prepare for the upcoming approach and landing test of the Dream Chaser Space System later this year. It evaluated the impact the nose landing gear will experience on touchdown in order to ensure a safe runway landing.

Image above: An artist's conception of Sierra Nevada Corp.'s Dream Chaser spacecraft landing on a traditional runway. (Image credit: Sierra Nevada Corp.)

Image above: An artist’s conception of Sierra Nevada Corp.’s Dream Chaser spacecraft landing on a traditional runway. (Image credit: Sierra Nevada Corp.)

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