NASA will soon have a third way of sending cargo to the ISS.
But as of yet, there's no rigid timeline for when and how landings will be made at Spaceport America. NASA has asked Sierra Nevada to kick off its Dream Chaser flights with at least six uncrewed cargo missions to the International Space Station . And these flights will lift off using the United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur rockets, at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, in Florida.
Another landing site for the Dream Chaser is NASA's old space shuttle runway, located at Kennedy Space Center's Launch and Landing Facility — also in Florida. But there are other options: the space plane could land at Oita Airport in Japan, or even the U.K.'s Spaceport Cornwall, according to the release.At first, Sierra Space considered using Dream Chaser for crewed flights, to lift astronauts to the ISS, but NASA opted for SpaceX's services , for human missions.
As of writing, NASA sends cargo to the ISS via rockets supplied by Northrop Grumman and Elon Musk's SpaceX. And the latter's Dragon capsule can return experiments to Earth, with full re-entry capabilities. Once
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