The last American space plane to complete a mission in orbit touched down at the Kennedy Space Center on July 21, 2011. When the Space Shuttle orbiter Atlantis came to a wheel stop at the end of the ...

Sierra Space's "mini shuttle" Dream Chaser space plane may make its maiden flight in May after launching atop a rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Pre-flight testing continues at NASA's ...

You don't need a reusable space plane the size of an airliner to bring humans and cargo to and from Low Earth Orbit. That's why, in spite of its size, the Sierra Space Dream Chaser spaceplane is as ...

NASA’s Space Shuttle may be gone, but Dream Chaser is bringing the concept back - smaller, sleeker, and smarter. Designed for reusability, runway landings, and both cargo and crew transport, Dream ...

You will, it is hoped, forgive the fanciful name: the Dream Chaser. But there is something distinctly aspirational about the shrink-wrapped experimental spacecraft that arrived at Edwards Air Force ...

Sierra Space fired up its spaceplane in its assembly facility for the first time, signifying that the Dream Chaser shuttle could soon be ready for its first mission to low Earth orbit. The ...

The dream of reviving winged space flight is close to reality as employees at Sierra Space put the finishing touches on its Dream Chaser craft in the company’s Louisville facility and get it ready to ...

There is still some work to do to prepare Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spaceplane for its first mission, but the company says the winged resupply craft for the International Space Station will soon ...

When NASA's space shuttle program ended after 30 years in July 2011, so too did a familiar sight often captured on television news clips – the hulking black-and-white orbiters coming in for a landing ...

Colorado-based space startup Sierra Space has made considerable progress on its Dream Chaser spaceplane, a sleek spacecraft designed to glide back to the ground after screaming through space. As Ars ...

Commercial spaceplanes traveling to the International Space Station (ISS) are a step closer to reality. Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spaceplane, called Tenacity, completed its pre-flight testing at ...