On July 21, 2011, Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down at Kennedy Space Center, marking the end of the shuttle program. Now, NASA is back with a newer, more versatile craft. The Sierra Space Dream Chaser will provide a minimum of seven cargo service missions to and from the space station. The spaceplane can deliver up to 5,500 kg of pressurized and unpressurized cargo to the space station, including food, water, supplies, and science experiments and returns to Earth. Dream Chaser can return critical cargo at less than 1.5 g’s using a gentle runway landing. And it’s being built right here in Louisville!

This presentation is an overview of what we do at Sierra Space and why we do them. I’ll give an overview of our Dream Chaser spaceplane and our Inflatable Space Stations. Includes videos of: 2017 Drop test, Mission Tenacity and Our Mission Control.