Spacecraft 'Flown' Under An Erickson Sky-Crane In Simulated Approach
NASA partner Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) of Louisville, CO, successfully completed a captive-carry test of the Dream Chaser spacecraft Thursday, Aug. 22, at the agency's Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, CA.
Trains Astronauts For Reduced Mobility When Wearing A Pressurized Suit
Aurora Flight Sciences has delivered a completed Space Suit Simulator (S3) to NASA following the successful completion of a Phase II Small Business Innovative Research effort. Aurora collaborated with Professors Dava Newman and Jeffrey Hoffman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, as well as Professor Grant Schaffner from the University of Cincinnati, for this program.
Group Developed Reusable Launch Vehicle In The 1990s
Fourty current and former employees of Aerojet Rocketdyne have been inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame (ISHF). All of the honored employees served as members of the original Delta Clipper Experimental (DC-X/DC-XA) team which helped develop an unmanned prototype of a reusable single-stage launch vehicle in the 1990s.
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