How NASA and Sierra Space are getting ready for Dream Chaser area airplane’s 1st flight to ISS
Art work portrays Sierra Space Dream Chaser spaceplane berthed to International Space Station. (Image credit: Sierra Space)
LOUISVILLE, Colorado-- The scene here is extreme. Gradually, ever so gradually, the Sierra Space Dream Chaser spaceplane approaches the International Space Station.There is focused face time here as objective controllers monitor their computer system screens and vigilantly keep an eye on inbound information. Stress and anxiety installs within the personal business's nerve center as the craft makes its method through different perfunctory stops briefly-- very carefully approaching the International Space Station (ISS) and gets in the technique ellipsoid.The outstretched Canadarm2 robotic arm grapples a component on Dream Chaser's Shooting Star freight module...