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4. Dream Chaser shows her fight – SNC protest CCtCap decision

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2014/09/dream-chaser-fight-snc-protest-cctcap-decision/

Dream Chaser shows her fight – SNC protest CCtCap decision
September 26, 2014 by Chris Bergin

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The reusable lifting body vehicle is based on the heritage of NASA Langley’s HL-20 spaceplane concept from the 1980s, a space vehicle that can utilize cross-range capability and land on a conventional runway.

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Within the space industry – at least those speaking to NASASpaceFlight – it was expected that NASA would select Dream Chaser alongside SpaceX’s Dragon V2, providing a key element of “dissimilar redundancy” within the Agency’s priority drive of removing the undesirable reliance on the Russian Soyuz for lofting NASA astronauts to an International Space Station (ISS) that was mainly funded and constructed by the United States.

Per the original CCtCap decision NASA opted to partner Dragon with Boeing’s CST-100 capsule, with the rationale behind the decision a tightly kept secret – only set to be revealed, in part, by the upcoming publication of the Source Selection document.

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