Shuttle-like space taxi would call Kennedy Space Center its homeport Dream Chaser project could eventually mean jobs in ‘low hundreds’ for area A Colorado company wants to base a fleet of small shuttle-like spaceships at Kennedy Space Center, a move that could yield dozens of new jobs on Florida’s Space Coast. The Sierra Nevada Corp.’s Dream Chaser will blast off atop United Launch Alliance Atlas V rockets at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Launch Complex 41. The reusable spacecraft will be able to ferry up to seven people to and from the International Space Station, or other destinations in low Earth orbit. Keep reading. The Daily Planet at Discovery Channel website has a video report about the Dream Chaser. Watch it here. 
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Shuttle-like space taxi would call Kennedy Space Center its homeport

Dream Chaser project could eventually mean jobs in ‘low hundreds’ for area

A Colorado company wants to base a fleet of small shuttle-like spaceships at Kennedy Space Center, a move that could yield dozens of new jobs on Florida’s Space Coast.

The Sierra Nevada Corp.’s Dream Chaser will blast off atop United Launch Alliance Atlas V rockets at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Launch Complex 41.

The reusable spacecraft will be able to ferry up to seven people to and from the International Space Station, or other destinations in low Earth orbit.

Keep reading.

The Daily Planet at Discovery Channel website has a video report about the Dream Chaser. Watch it here. 

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    Shuttle-like space taxi would call Kennedy Space Center its homeport
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    and THIS is me looking down at the world after my workout HIGH! ツ woohoo!
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    That would be cool
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    see some work being done for the future...space travel. I hear
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    WHY WASN’T I INVITED INTO SPACE NASA?