This 2-minute, 3-second video shows Sierra Nevada Corporation Space Systems' Dream Chaser engineering flight test vehicle, arriving at NASA's Dryden (now Armstrong) Flight Research Center in Edwards, CA, May 15, 2013 to begin tests of its flight and runway landing systems. Wrapped in plastic with its wings and tail structure removed, the Dream Chaser test article was transported overland from the company's facility in Louisville, CO.
Tests at Dryden during the summer of 2013 involved tow, captive-carry, and free-flight tests of the Dream Chaser, which is based on the HL-20 lifting body design developed and tested at NASA's Langley Research Center.
The tests are part of pre-negotiated, paid-for-performance milestones with NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP), which is facilitating domestic companies' development of spacecraft and rockets that can launch from American soil into low-Earth orbit to transport crew and cargo to and from the international Space Station (ISS) and perform other research missions.
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