Aerotech News and Review, May 18 2018

SNC’s Dream Chaser departs NASA Armstrong
NASA photograph
Sierra Nevada Corp’s Dream Chaser was lifted by helicopter from the ramp at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, before its successful approach and landing flight test Nov. 11, 2017.
After nearly 16 months at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California, Sierra Ne- vada Corporation’s Dream Chaser spacecraft departed April 5.
The flight test vehicle is headed to Colorado to be on display in one of the company facilities and may be used to support future manufactur- ing and ground testing operations
Based on the HL-10 lifting body aircraft design, the spaceplane was at Armstrong un-
See DREAM CHASER, Page 3
NASA photograph by Ken Ulbrich
Dream Chaser departs in front of HL-10 at NASA Armstrong where it underwent testing and preparation for successful approach and landing flight. The spacecraft returned to SNC facility in Colorado.
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