YES!!! I'm one year older and now at the young age of 67. I have to wait longer to see a space vehicle that has literally been in development for almost 30 years and finally fly into space!! This thing should have either been cancelled to never see a day's work on it or thrown the talent at it to make it happen in months, not years. The Chinese will copy this vehicle and spit them out of a factory toot sweet and fast once the design gets reverse engineered just like SpaceX has had their reusable space work horse copied and flown right now. Get it done for Peet's sake and protect the technology so we can license it and control who has it and for what purpose it is used.
YES! I absolutely am looking forward to Dream Chaser getting its chance to launch and be an outstanding success. I am also hopeful that both Starliner and Orion will have their respective bugs worked out.
@@RamblingRodeoStarship its self is going to be human rated! If it was to ride F9 it would have to be non fairing loaded & use an expendable F9 probably
You know there are people sitting around senior NASA offices saying, "Gee I wish we had picked Dream Chaser instead of Starliner." The thing is, I bet there are people in Boeing offices wishing the same thing.
There is no guarantee that dreamchaser will ever get to be human rated #1 it has NO human rated launch vehicle! 😊 There are 2 launchers that could lift it Vulcan Centaur (may be human rated at some point in the future) & New Glenn ??? May launch someday and be human rated in the next ?? decade? 😊 There is the issue that dreamchaser has NO launch abort capacity! SpaceX may get Starship human rated beforehand & if they had a crew ejection capsule & built a catch tower in Australia & had a floating one off Africa they would have continuous launch abort from take-off to orbit.
Been waiting for this for over 30 years. Love the channel. Got a little scared when I thought content was repeating but it seems fine. I think it was just a weekly compilation? Either way, I still love the channel.
NO this is not "NASA's new spaceplane" NASA gave $4.8B to Boeing for Starliner. They can claim that hunk of junk as NASA's. "This is Sierra Spaces New Spaceplane!" Give credit where it is due.
I'm not entirely clear how much NASA has spent on the Dream Chaser, but its at least several hundred million dollars. How much do they have to spend before the thing becomes theirs? The only customers for this thing seem to be NASA and the US military. They are the ones defining everything about it.
It was designed to ride Atlas V & can ride a multitude of launchers! The current dreamchaser needs a bigger fairing than SpaceX has the human rated one was designed to ride bare and probably could launch on an F9 may need expendable. Serra Nevada is nowhere near building a human rated vehicle. 😊
What they need to do is design one of these larger. Much larger using raptor engines and also have engines powering it for landings. A real space truck
So starship will almost be ready by the time its finished? Spending billions on tech that is outdated almost as soon as its released is a huge waste of tax dollars!!!
Consider the workforce size and budget of the Starship to Dreamchaser. Starship is being funded by many sources both private and public to the tune of billions and billions. Starship has a much larger scope of operations than Dreamchaser. Dreamchaser is mostly developed as a platform for the ISS and is mostly if not entirely federally funded with a small workforce running on a fixed cost.
@darrellhanks6459 the iss is going to be deorbited in a few years. Starships could put up a station that is way larger! The only good thing i can see is nasa puts out a nearly finished product vs spacex giving us some awesome fireballs!
NASA didn't fund Dream Chaser. Sierra Space lost out to Boeing and SpaceX, but decided to do it anyway and paid for it themselves + outside investors. Now that Starliner has proven itself as an unmitigated disaster, Sierra is ready to step up. I'm a huge SpaceX fan, but I think Dream Chaser will be great alongside Dragon, and Sierra has other plans as well. Example: Transporting people & cargo to/from private space stations
Well, technically, NASA gave money to Sierra for Dreamchaser, but also Boeing, SpaceX, Rocket Plane / Kistler, and a few others as initial seed money for companies wanting in on the commercial crew program (CCP), then a little more after they hit certain milestones. Eventually, NASA awarded CCP contracts to SpaceX ($2.6B) and Boeing ($4.2B) to build their crew transport vehicles. Boeing got $1.6B more than SpaceX, but only SpaceX and hopefully soon Sierra (who got $0B) have viable spacecraft.
It would be a great return craft for moon astronauts or many other space ventures… imagine a dream chaser depot. Maybe starship can launch 8-10 at a time. The dream chasers can be docked up in a line at a new space station/ depot. It could be the better way home and faster turn around. The depot could be used for Any space venture, including moon or mars missions. The starship Artemis could pick up and drop off astronauts when it refuels at such depot/ station.
The true value of Boeing Starliner will only ever be realised when it is the subject of an extensive and in-depth study into how NOT to develop, build and launch a space craft.
Spacex and all Elon Musk's plans will now receive doubled turbo speed to accomplishment. Thanks in anticipation to President Trump; to Mars and beyond for humanity.👍👏💪
My understanding is different that this report. Dream Chaser is not yet ready for flight and that is not the fault of ULA. Apparently they have problems that have not yet been resolved in testing. Even the date of May 2025 may not be likely. It certainly isn't "upcoming" and it means that the manned Dreamed Chaser will also be delayed. I would like to see it fly as much as anybody but the verdict is still out at least until you see the cargo craft land safely.
It would need to be housed in the payload section as Starship does most of the work of getting to orbital velocity! Booster just gets you up to where you can pour the necessary acceleration on! 😊 Dreamchaser is a good fit for Vulcan Centaur or New Glenn when & if they get human rated! 😮
I’m hopeful that when dreamchaser launches Sierra Nevada is going to get a ton of data which will continue to help it develop its crude version. I know that in the space community there’s some who doubt that people will fly on the space plane. But I’m not one of those!
Not sure I see the value of this thing! The Dragon has to be a great deal cheaper to build and maintain. And it would appear that the payload carried by Dragon would be much larger. I guess we'll see! I know a lot of people are hungry for a spacecraft that land on a runway. But I think SpaceX has shown that it's not necessary to go to the expense of making a ship with airplane in the atmosphere like features. You can just land the booster on a barge or back on land. Or your spacecraft can be caught in the vertical position, back at the base where it can easily be refitted for it's next flight. Still looking up!
I'm sure this question has already been answered, but I must have missed the answer. Why not park the ISS somewhere out of harm's way for who knows what ? ( I'm sure Hollywood will write a script for it. ) Is it just too difficult to boost it ?
The structure will not withstand that kind of delta V. Attempting it would cause a break up and no control over where the pieces re-enter the atmosphere.
I'm no Aerospace engineer ( obviously ) , but ISS was boosted in the past. I understand stress on the station is a problem, but isn't it possible to ( engineer jargon it isn't, I know ) to give it a milder push, but keep it up longer ? I suppose not. NASA will have considered all possibilities.
It would probably need to ride F9 expendable and unfairinged , ULA Vulcan Centaur is not human rated , BO New Glenn is still to launch, Ariane 6 not human rated & Terran R still in development. 😊
Also if I was the leader at Sierra space designing Dream Chaser I’d be wanting a future variant of this space plane that can actually launch from the ground. It would have ramjet or scramjet engines that would get dream chaser to almost escape velocity then the rockets can ignite getting to LEO. This just feels like the next evolution for Dream Chaser instead of launching atop a large expensive rocket
It is a space plane that May in the future be human rated! It is supposed to be able to be launched on multiple rockets , but at the current time there are only 2 human rated rockets Atlas V (which is out of production) & Falcon 9 (cannot lift dreamchaser) ! Vulcan Centaur is supposed to be human rated sometime in the future likely to be years away , New Glenn maybe/probably??? Human rated. SpaceX has ruled out ever human rateing F9 heavy. 😅 It is a rider with out a horse!
So this can take passengers to space? This seems pretty pointless, yes it looks cool but its impractical. Did they not learn anything at all from the space shuttle program?
No, it can not. Sierra Nevada originally proposed Dream Chaser as a manned vehicle for the Commercial Crew program. They lost out to SpaceX and Boeing. Unwilling to be deterred, they set about developing an unmanned version and proposed it for the next round of Commercial Resupply Contracts. NASA decided to open that program up to three suppliers instead of two, and so added the unmanned Dream Chaser to Cargo Dragon and Cygnus for that function. Sierra is continuing, on its own dime, to work on a manned version of Dream Chaser which they hope eventually to build and market. Your deep, technical understanding of space operations, and Shuttle operations in particular comes from . . . where exactly? What, precisely, would you say is impractical about Dream Chaser?
Be nice to see dream chaser actually fly. Good luck Sierra 👍
Yes have been waiting for Dreamchaser and could not belive that Nasa chose Starliner over it in the first place and it is worked out as expected...
2024 hasn’t come and gone.. it’s literally still 2024
Its come and gone in the sense that Dreamchaser hasn't launched and won't until next year.
Great video Kevin 👍
YES!!!
I'm one year older and now at the young age of 67. I have to wait longer to see a space vehicle that has literally been in development for almost 30 years and finally fly into space!!
This thing should have either been cancelled to never see a day's work on it or thrown the talent at it to make it happen in months, not years. The Chinese will copy this vehicle and spit them out of a factory toot sweet and fast once the design gets reverse engineered just like SpaceX has had their reusable space work horse copied and flown right now. Get it done for Peet's sake and protect the technology so we can license it and control who has it and for what purpose it is used.
YES! I absolutely am looking forward to Dream Chaser getting its chance to launch and be an outstanding success.
I am also hopeful that both Starliner and Orion will have their respective bugs worked out.
The incompetence of a government department is directly related to the length of the department title.
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Excelente Great Spacex 🚀✈️
Thanks for your support!
After all the delays of the James Webb Space Telescope, its clear that delays do not necessarily doom a project.
NASA should of chosen this instead of Boeing for Commercial Crew program
Agree
No it was more expensive by far and it was a experimental design on paper only 😊
The lead picture is of the plane alright but this is talking about the cargo ship. Very different beasts.
My friend's Dad designed Dream Chaser back in the early 80s and I have a framed picture of it !
Get that thing on a SpaceX rocket
If Space X was behind this it would be on its 40th flight by now. Use a Falcon 9 to launch it
Could you imagine larger version of this, being on Starship?
@@RamblingRodeoStarship its self is going to be human rated! If it was to ride F9 it would have to be non fairing loaded & use an expendable F9 probably
@@jackdbur I am not convinced that starship will be, i think they will use Dragon to dock with starship in Orbit.
Dream chaser might be an apt name, if this doesn't go smoothly the dream could be over, Spacex is way ahead.
You know there are people sitting around senior NASA offices saying, "Gee I wish we had picked Dream Chaser instead of Starliner." The thing is, I bet there are people in Boeing offices wishing the same thing.
There is no guarantee that dreamchaser will ever get to be human rated #1 it has NO human rated launch vehicle! 😊 There are 2 launchers that could lift it Vulcan Centaur (may be human rated at some point in the future) & New Glenn ??? May launch someday and be human rated in the next ?? decade? 😊 There is the issue that dreamchaser has NO launch abort capacity! SpaceX may get Starship human rated beforehand & if they had a crew ejection capsule & built a catch tower in Australia & had a floating one off Africa they would have continuous launch abort from take-off to orbit.
Been waiting for this for over 30 years. Love the channel. Got a little scared when I thought content was repeating but it seems fine. I think it was just a weekly compilation? Either way, I still love the channel.
Hell YES!
I always thought a smaller space shuttle makes more sense for going to the ISS. Never again put a vehicle on the side of a bomb to get into orbit.
Yes!
Dragon, the Swiss Army Knife of space capsules!
NO this is not "NASA's new spaceplane" NASA gave $4.8B to Boeing for Starliner. They can claim that hunk of junk as NASA's. "This is Sierra Spaces New Spaceplane!" Give credit where it is due.
I'm not entirely clear how much NASA has spent on the Dream Chaser, but its at least several hundred million dollars. How much do they have to spend before the thing becomes theirs? The only customers for this thing seem to be NASA and the US military. They are the ones defining everything about it.
Sierra Space should have never agreed to a BeSpoke booster. Go with the commodity boosters of SpaceX.
It was designed to ride Atlas V & can ride a multitude of launchers! The current dreamchaser needs a bigger fairing than SpaceX has the human rated one was designed to ride bare and probably could launch on an F9 may need expendable. Serra Nevada is nowhere near building a human rated vehicle. 😊
What they need to do is design one of these larger. Much larger using raptor engines and also have engines powering it for landings. A real space truck
Betcha Elon's already on it!
@@joeday9333SpaceX has always stated that Starship will be human rated! You could fit multiple Dreamchasers within the payload area of Starship! 😊
YES YES YES YES YES
So starship will almost be ready by the time its finished? Spending billions on tech that is outdated almost as soon as its released is a huge waste of tax dollars!!!
Consider the workforce size and budget of the Starship to Dreamchaser. Starship is being funded by many sources both private and public to the tune of billions and billions. Starship has a much larger scope of operations than Dreamchaser. Dreamchaser is mostly developed as a platform for the ISS and is mostly if not entirely federally funded with a small workforce running on a fixed cost.
@darrellhanks6459 the iss is going to be deorbited in a few years. Starships could put up a station that is way larger! The only good thing i can see is nasa puts out a nearly finished product vs spacex giving us some awesome fireballs!
NASA didn't fund Dream Chaser. Sierra Space lost out to Boeing and SpaceX, but decided to do it anyway and paid for it themselves + outside investors.
Now that Starliner has proven itself as an unmitigated disaster, Sierra is ready to step up.
I'm a huge SpaceX fan, but I think Dream Chaser will be great alongside Dragon, and Sierra has other plans as well. Example: Transporting people & cargo to/from private space stations
Well, technically, NASA gave money to Sierra for Dreamchaser, but also Boeing, SpaceX, Rocket Plane / Kistler, and a few others as initial seed money for companies wanting in on the commercial crew program (CCP), then a little more after they hit certain milestones. Eventually, NASA awarded CCP contracts to SpaceX ($2.6B) and Boeing ($4.2B) to build their crew transport vehicles. Boeing got $1.6B more than SpaceX, but only SpaceX and hopefully soon Sierra (who got $0B) have viable spacecraft.
It would be a great return craft for moon astronauts or many other space ventures… imagine a dream chaser depot. Maybe starship can launch 8-10 at a time. The dream chasers can be docked up in a line at a new space station/ depot. It could be the better way home and faster turn around. The depot could be used for Any space venture, including moon or mars missions. The starship Artemis could pick up and drop off astronauts when it refuels at such depot/ station.
Yes!🚀
YES!!!!!!!!
YES ASAP
Yes, indeed
I learned that NASA has Assistant Deputy Associate Administrators. What could go wrong.
YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!!!
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YES! I can't wait!!!!
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The true value of Boeing Starliner will only ever be realised when it is the subject of an extensive and in-depth study into how NOT to develop, build and launch a space craft.
Yes
YES. WE NEED AS MUCH SPACE PRESENCE AS POSSIBLE TO ENSURE HUMANITY’S SURVIVAL AND PURSUIT OF GREATNESS
Seems like some sort of secret dream chaser type craft was launched out of Vanderburg back in 2021.
Its far smaller.
YES!
yes
YES YES! Couldn't Dream Chaser be launched in Falcon too
Falcon Heavy. Yes.
@@jamesogden7756 Falcon 9 could easily do it.
@@Lornefs to LEO, as expendable core sure. Needs a bit more punch to go to the ISS and land all 3 cores.
Thanks. Done the math already.
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Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes !!!!!
So much YES
Go Dream Chaser
Kick Starliner
Yes. 😊
Yes.👍👍
YES!!!!
"Yes"
launch dream chaser using falcon 9 for fully reusable star canoe
for parts not working
YES !!! JA, DA, OUI, SI !
who cares, they are jealous of Space X
Well, with starliner to Orion, things dont look great for old Space companies.... I cant wait for DreamChaser to fly!
It will kick weak spacecrafts
The skipper is only 11 years behind in development but it's the first time I seen it.
Yeah launch yesterday!!!!
Boo yah baby!
Spacex and all Elon Musk's plans will now receive doubled turbo speed to accomplishment. Thanks in anticipation to President Trump; to Mars and beyond for humanity.👍👏💪
yyes indeed
Are the dream chasers folding wings and heat shield not a kin to SpaceX starship folding fins? Maybe they could learn from each other?
Ah yeah ….er I mean Yes!
Will the first mission be un crewed?
Is there anybody who will step in an untested craft nowaday ??
@ The first shuttle flight.
Now, FAA won’t let starship do flights without environmental reviews.
My understanding is different that this report. Dream Chaser is not yet ready for flight and that is not the fault of ULA. Apparently they have problems that have not yet been resolved in testing. Even the date of May 2025 may not be likely. It certainly isn't "upcoming" and it means that the manned Dreamed Chaser will also be delayed. I would like to see it fly as much as anybody but the verdict is still out at least until you see the cargo craft land safely.
Serra Nevada would need a large injection of cash & engineering support to push development along!
Is the dream Chaser going to be maned or remote piloted.
remote for now!
Put it ontop of a starship booster
It would need to be housed in the payload section as Starship does most of the work of getting to orbital velocity! Booster just gets you up to where you can pour the necessary acceleration on! 😊 Dreamchaser is a good fit for Vulcan Centaur or New Glenn when & if they get human rated! 😮
DUMP ULA! PUT THE DREAM CHASER on a Falcon Heavy!
I’m hopeful that when dreamchaser launches Sierra Nevada is going to get a ton of data which will continue to help it develop its crude version. I know that in the space community there’s some who doubt that people will fly on the space plane. But I’m not one of those!
Not sure I see the value of this thing! The Dragon has to be a great deal cheaper to build and maintain. And it would appear that the payload carried by Dragon would be much larger. I guess we'll see!
I know a lot of people are hungry for a spacecraft that land on a runway. But I think SpaceX has shown that it's not necessary to go to the expense of making a ship with airplane in the atmosphere like features. You can just land the booster on a barge or back on land. Or your spacecraft can be caught in the vertical position, back at the base where it can easily be refitted for it's next flight.
Still looking up!
You didn't mention SpaceX catching its own spaceship
They caught the booster not the spaceship
Would to land one on mars from a starship
I am anxious to see just about anything they do in space. However, there is no way that space plane reliably handles reentry.
Goddammit the playback speed doesn't work !
Boy, these aren't challenges.
These are PROBLEMS, you're too good for new speak. Makes me wonder about your orientation.
Yes yes and ouea yes😂😂😮
I'm sure this question has already been answered, but I must have missed the answer.
Why not park the ISS somewhere out of harm's way for who knows what ? ( I'm sure Hollywood will write a script for it. )
Is it just too difficult to boost it ?
The structure will not withstand that kind of delta V. Attempting it would cause a break up and no control over where the pieces re-enter the atmosphere.
Thanks for your comment
I'm no Aerospace engineer ( obviously ) , but ISS was boosted in the past. I understand stress on the station is a problem, but isn't it possible to ( engineer jargon it isn't, I know ) to give it a milder push, but keep it up longer ?
I suppose not. NASA will have considered all possibilities.
@petersteinmeijer519 it's older than your car. It's got issues. Surmountable, yes. Economical? No.
So it's cheaper for SpaceX to bring it down and let it be destroyed in a controlled fashion.
So if Boeing is going to try selling there Rocket 🚀 do they think they can get anything for it. Consilling considering all things that's gone worng.
Not a rocket it is just the human 😂 rated capsule! 😊
Somebody watching??🍄🍄🍄
Yes. We need Dreamchaser as soon as possible, including crew certification!
Its ready to fly, this one was put off due to ULA pushing it back, what we need is Dreamchaser to get on with SpaceX.
It would probably need to ride F9 expendable and unfairinged , ULA Vulcan Centaur is not human rated , BO New Glenn is still to launch, Ariane 6 not human rated & Terran R still in development. 😊
Absolutely, it's time!
@@RamblingRodeo Wholeheartedly agree.
No
"We have conclusive determination" why can't she just say "We know"?? pure BS language trying to make simple things sound complex
Conclusive determination that it's an irrecoverable design flaw but have to wait before next round of funding before revealing it
Once upon a time ......... is how fairy tales begin?
😂 yes 😂
Bravo SPACEX ‘s new Dream Chaser’s and Dragon’s progress to completion of the PPCM VERIFICATION👏👏👏👏👏👏!
Dream chaser is not a SpaceX craft
@ thank you for the clarification! I knew SpaceX was buying NASA!
That's fantastic!
This thing is useless. Can't even get itself to space.
Umm . . . It hasn’t even tried yet.
Also if I was the leader at Sierra space designing Dream Chaser I’d be wanting a future variant of this space plane that can actually launch from the ground. It would have ramjet or scramjet engines that would get dream chaser to almost escape velocity then the rockets can ignite getting to LEO. This just feels like the next evolution for Dream Chaser instead of launching atop a large expensive rocket
It is a space plane that May in the future be human rated! It is supposed to be able to be launched on multiple rockets , but at the current time there are only 2 human rated rockets Atlas V (which is out of production) & Falcon 9 (cannot lift dreamchaser) ! Vulcan Centaur is supposed to be human rated sometime in the future likely to be years away , New Glenn maybe/probably??? Human rated. SpaceX has ruled out ever human rateing F9 heavy. 😅 It is a rider with out a horse!
So this can take passengers to space? This seems pretty pointless, yes it looks cool but its impractical. Did they not learn anything at all from the space shuttle program?
No, it can not. Sierra Nevada originally proposed Dream Chaser as a manned vehicle for the Commercial Crew program. They lost out to SpaceX and Boeing. Unwilling to be deterred, they set about developing an unmanned version and proposed it for the next round of Commercial Resupply Contracts. NASA decided to open that program up to three suppliers instead of two, and so added the unmanned Dream Chaser to Cargo Dragon and Cygnus for that function. Sierra is continuing, on its own dime, to work on a manned version of Dream Chaser which they hope eventually to build and market.
Your deep, technical understanding of space operations, and Shuttle operations in particular comes from . . . where exactly? What, precisely, would you say is impractical about Dream Chaser?
Starship can't take passengers to space it is useless. THAT is how you sound clueless stupid an unthinking, oblivious to possibility.
Already obsolete!!!👎👎👎
May 2025 is not soon. As long as you keep going on with the clickbait headers I wont subscribe.
Bye 👋 😊
I agree, I in fact block all click bait. And here we go! Poof!!! Great Spacex you are gone!
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