VIDEO | SNC’s Dream Chaser First Free-Flight Approach-and-Landing Test

Despite a crash landing, a full-scale model of Sierra Nevada Corp.’s Dreamchaser — one of three spacecraft vying to take the space shuttle’s place as NASA’s means of flying astronauts to the international space station — may actually have performed well enough in an Oct. 26 test flight to clear an $8 million development milestone. Credit: SNC