...from UNsafe ZERO-ZERO Blast Offs...
The evil White Public Space Program (WPSP) NASA selection of the BS Boeing Starliner capsule is a multi-year, $9.5 multi-billion dollar MISTAKE: the DreamChaser winged Aerospace plane that works... should have been chosen to resupply/re-man the International Space Station (ISS) in conjunction with Musk's re-usable, 1950's sci-fi movie, tail-sitting landing, Dragon X Action Reaction Rocket (ARR) missions. Ask the 2x NASA astronauts now stranded on the ISS because it's Starliner capsule is defectively made crap about this.
If someone is "marooned" in space...no desperation drama like the 1969 movie...the mini-DreamChaser + Roc can get into space within 24x hours to RESCUE them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaled_Composites_Stratolaunch
The Scaled Composites Model 351 Stratolaunch or Roc is an aircraft built by Scaled Composites for Stratolaunch Systems to carry air-launch-to-orbit (ALTO) rockets
Launch of a Dream Chaser small spaceplane capable of transporting astronauts or payloads within 24 hours was also proposed.[47][48]
https://www.space.com/27349-dream-chaser-space-plane-stratolaunch.html
Private Dream Chaser Space Plane May Launch from Giant Aircraft
News
By Kelly Dickerson published October 6, 2014
PIC: Stratolaunch and Sierra Nevada Corp. Launch System
Stratolaunch and Sierra Nevada Corp. are teaming up to create a launch system to propel the Dream Chaser space plane into orbit. (Image credit: Sierra Nevada Corporation)
A private space plane may still carry people to orbit in the next few years, even though NASA passed the vehicle over as an astronaut taxi.
Last month, NASA chose SpaceX and Boeing to fly its astronauts to and from the International Space Station, apparently leaving Sierra Nevada Corp.'s Dream Chaser space plane out in the cold. But Sierra Nevada is now teaming up with Stratolaunch Systems to develop a way to get a scaled-down version of Dream Chaser spacecraft off the ground.
Dream Chaser was originally designed to carry up to 7x astronauts and launch vertically atop a rocket. But the new vision calls for a 3x-passenger [mini] Dream Chaser to be air-launched by a giant ["Roc"] plane developed by Stratolaunch, a company that billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen created in 2011 to make spaceflight [safer] cheaper and more efficient.
"Combining a scaled version of SNC’s Dream Chaser with the Stratolaunch air launch system could provide a highly responsive capability with the potential to reach a variety of LEO [low-Earth orbit] destinations and return astronauts or payloads to a U.S. runway within 24 hours," Stratolaunch executive director Chuck Beames said in a statement.
Stratolaunch Systems likely won't start test flights of its giant aircraft until 2016, company representatives have said. Sierra Nevada and Stratolaunch presented the new launch system idea at the 65th International Astronautical Congress in Toronto on Oct. 1.
Sierra Nevada won multiple rounds of funding through NASA's Commercial Crew Program over the last four years to develop Dream Chaser but lost out on the final contract, which was announced on Sept. 16. The agency awarded SpaceX $2.6 billion and Boeing $4.2 billion to continue work on their Dragon and CST-100 capsules, respectively.
NASA hopes at least one of these private American spaceships is up and running by 2017. The agency has depended on Russian Soyuz spacecraft to fly American astronauts to and from the space station since 2011, when the space shuttle fleet retired.
On Sept. 26, Sierra Nevada filed a protest with the U.S. Government Accountability Office over NASA's handling of the final commercial crew contracts.
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Dream Chaser Teams with Stratolaunch to Carry People into Space
By Bethany Whitfield / Published: Oct 02, 2014
The Dream Chaser, a reusable crewed space shuttle currently under development by Sierra Nevada Corporation, may one day carry people into space with the help of Stratolaunch's massive carrier plane, the brainchild of aviation legend Burt Rutan and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
The news comes on the heels of Sierra Nevada Corporation's announcement that it will legally challenge NASA's decision to snub the company's bid for a Commercial Crew Transportation contract in favor of the competition's two other proposals, submitted by Boeing and SpaceX.
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