A day in the life of a space trucker

• Autores: Lisa Grossman
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3080, 2016, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The Californian desert rushes up in front of her, she can see the runway at Edwards Air Force Base emerging clearly from the hills, and she tries to keep the nose of her spacecraft pointed straight down the center. She's flying the Dream Chaser spaceplane back from a stint at the International Space Station, and she's keenly aware of her delicate cargo. Dream Chaser is a quarter of the size of the space shuttle, with wings that fold so it can be squished down for launch on top of a wide variety of rockets, It is designed to land as gently as a plane at commercial airports, and will be able to return from the ISS in just three to six hours--good features for carrying delicate experiments or injured astronauts. Here, Grossman details the design of Dream Chaser.