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NASA Administrator (and former astronaut) Major General Charles Bolden flew the Sierra Nevada Dream Chaser simulator during a visit to NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base on May 22.
If Dream Chaser is not the future, it is much closer than NASA’s $10-billion attempt to recreate the Apollo capsule — but who will tell Congress that?
We already have the Dragon which is as good as the Orion hopes to be. The Dragon rider is nearly ready, and it will be far better and far better price, and available years earlier. As typical NASA is dumping more money down a rat hole.
We should have two so lets have the Dragon Rider and the Dream Chaser.
Why should we have two when the market and innovation may decide on three, or thirty?
SLS will die, just a matter of when. Put the money in Dragon and Dream Chaser and spend the money wisely. The time will come when NASA will have to step out of the way and let commercial lead the way.