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[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

A scaled up and modified version of dream chaser as a replacement for the nose cone of starship, detachable, and able to glide back to earth with 30-40 people to any runway on earth -> Guaranteed human rating. For those who also foresee the problems with starship and human rating...something to chew on.

[@Thumbnail5398]

Amazing!! If you need thumbnail contact with me.

[@RamblingRodeo]

This is the second most exciting project vehicle next to starship that i am really excited to see happen!

[@benhuffington8482]

omg its like your brain cant say x37b

[@RamblingRodeo]

lolol @@benhuffington8482

[@tobyihli9470]

I’m a big SpaceX fan, but I love me some Dream Chaser!

[@Victor-2099]

Right😂 humanity is great indeed🙌🏼

[@Sandux930]

It's unique

[@lomeinottp]

Just my opinion but I think it will be the new delivery work horse for the ISS. It will definitely help keep costs down.

[@dctranberg1]

I listen/watch many space reporting shows. You are one of my favorites. Professional, detailed, enthusiastic and hopeful. Keep up the great work!

[@TheSpaceRaceYT]

Much appreciated! @dctranberg1

[@thisguyhere85]

I would be careful they get a lot of things very wrong frequently

[@nukezat]

Their main factory is a couple of miles away from my house and got a tour of their facility. Really amazing team of young engineers. Happy to see them making it happen and hopefully they manage to make the crewed version someday

[@ymodnar]

I hope the Dream Chaser will be able to carry passengers

[@TheSpaceRaceYT]

They do have a crew variant coming!

[@chrischeshire6528]

Once it becomes man rated, just like cargo dragon did to become the crew dragon, it will carry up to 7 people but will probably carry 4 per flight.

[@winslowjoy2629]

I believe the crew variants are destined to support Orbital Reef. Sierra Space was not selected for commercial crew contract to transport crews to ISS.

[@NeedsLessWedge]

I hope it is crew worthy as well. Human rated. It would be nice to have multiple options in the US

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

@@chrischeshire6528 Imagine a scaled up and modified version so it would fit in place of the nose cone of starship. 30-50 person capacity, detachable so it can glide back to earth on any runway. The tanks and engines can do the classic belly flop re-entry while the crew returns in the safest and least uncomfortable manner in existence. And it acts as an abort vessel in case of a failure during launch.

[@leonardodavila506]

Baby shuttle! Would be cool to see an upsized model using the SpaceX heavy engines

[@Forevertrue]

It's already too heavy to be useful.

[@liquidpatriot4480]

They plan to build a crew version in the future. For now they want to test the design and start fulfilling cargo deliveries to the ISS.

[@CASA-dy4vs]

@@Forevertrueca

[@DENZ317]

Great Work ! Love to see Dream Chaser make its mark early 2024. Outstanding development & tech , plus it can also land anywhere around the world. A new chapter in the making, all the best. 😎

[@akwakatsaka1826]

Always to the point and well delivered no-nonsense news

[@maksimkrasnov7163]

Dream chaser is my favorite project out here ! ❤

[@emmanuelben1393]

Never heard about Dream Chaser before, the concept sounds good

[@princecharon]

Imagine being the person who made the error with those tanks for the Vega, or the supervisor who failed to catch it. 'Oops' doesn't cover it, and future job prospects may be dim if they want to stay in anything like the same industry.

[@Geanto1954]

Thanks!

[@TehMafiaTV]

gorgeous looking ship

[@BreakingBarriers2DIY]

Of course just teasing here but that fuel transfer test internally between two tanks feels a little like the fastest gun in the west routine: “wanna see me draw?”Waits 2seconds without moving “wanna see it again?” I do love this content and thanks for clearing up the timing of the transfer test misunderstanding.

[@jtjames79]

How else would you do it?

[@BreakingBarriers2DIY]

@@jtjames79 :) Exactly. It is not criticism...it is funny is all. Hopefully they are as awesome at displaying the transfer telemetry as they are about engine status graphics.

[@theplaneguy45]

Honestly my biggest surprise with space travel right now is that there isn't a station-to-station rocket operative or in development. It would be pretty useful to have a craft that doesn't need to undergo the stress of escape and reentry every time. It would also be able to hold a lot more cargo, fuel, and crew, making it probably a lot better for missions to the moon and mars. It would definitely be helpful for a mars mission, since you could stock up on like 5-6 years worth of food, water, fuel, etc. and just ship it to martian orbit, then use a few surface-to-orbit and orbit-to-surface missions to bring it down as necessary.

[@chrishartley4553]

Well there really are only two space stations up there and neither is permanant. Nor is it so easy to transfer from one to the other when you consider the different orbits and the relative velocities. You might as well sent up rockets instead. You idea isn't bad, we're just not there yet in either technology or need.

[@theplaneguy45]

@@chrishartley4553 I guess I'm thinking moreso about the future, and I do think it would be a lot easier for a mars mission/moon mission.

[@user-de2jm1uf6z]

I've been watching for about 6 months. Great videos. Very informative. Thanks folks !

[@erictaylor5462]

Tiling the Space Shuttle, at least for Columbia and Challengers. The issue in the 1970's was the extreme cation engineers used when installing the tikes on the first Shuttle. The tiles were extremely critical to the safety of the Shuttle missions. Nothing like the tile system had ever been tried before. They had to make sure they weren't missing some small thing that would cause the tiles to fail.

[@dragonslyer74]

It's good to see that nasa's farescape program is reaching an ultimate conclusion

[@MarkAClarke]

I thought the same thing 😂😂

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

Just watchout for an electromagnetic wave...😉

[@johnrday2023]

Hold on, it is Sierra Space that is developing "Dream Chaser", not NASA !!! I wish them well, but they have been working on this since 2010, and they still have considerable work to do.

[@thehistorian3132]

I been waiting for you to drop this ❤honestly I love the dream chaser and I hope it feels the gap where the shuttle left

[@user-er5qu6wq5f]

On the way back from Mars they should stay on the 🌕 moon for about a month before returning to Earth in order to reacclimate to gravity to rebuild strength after such a long return voyage.

[@JtM8292]

Skip from 4:56 to 6:18 ! ... Your welcome 🤗

[@larryl43]

Thank you

[@i-love-space390]

All you "space kids" out there might not remember that it took YEARS to mount the Space Shuttle heat tiles too. They had massive problems with them falling off. So I guess all the old hands must have been shaking their heads when today's engineers were expecting Dream Chaser would not pose a problem. And all those people saying that Dream Chaser should have been chosen over the Boeing Starliner, have no idea how much longer it will be before a manned Dream Chaser ever flies. I think Starliner will have been operational for several years before a manned Dream Chaser is.

[@BarryHWhite]

Aye OK... 2012?. This design has been "flying!" about since the 50s. You could say its... A dinosaur!. Ha.

[@frankmcgowan9457]

Wasn't that one the "Dynosoar"?

[@BarryHWhite]

@@frankmcgowan9457 aye

[@darinladd5312]

that's exactly what i would say...1957-1963.

[@BarryHWhite]

@@darinladd5312 GR8 minds

[@darinladd5312]

@@BarryHWhite i love the usaf museum. they have a display, near the missile tower, but no artifacts. would love it if they could find the prototypes and display them.

[@HattedMoon]

I can't wait to see this tech get used in space

[@Ben-wl3el]

Oh my god, the missing Vega Tanks story killed me! 😂😂😂

[@PlanetXMysteries-pj9nm]

Science and the universe are something too sublime for me. Thank you for letting ignorant people like me see more of the universe. I really like this channel

[@yellowChupacabra]

Wow, the Vega tanks were mistaken for garbage and ... just wow. 10/10 😜

[@davidogrosky9875]

Looking good NASA

[@wayne9449]

What about using the capsule they put the ship in to make or increase the size of the space station?

[@CheapSushi]

They should have an extra one connected to the Space Station at all times as an emergency vehicle.

[@SiXiam]

They already have ships there for emergency, which are moved out when crews swap. You can't really keep a ship there all the time without swapping them. They are rated for so many months only. Things like the batteries, filters, and even the vales and pipes only have a set life.

[@marknovak6498]

Good to know the dream chaser becoming more than just a concept and a model.

[@Overdosage2748]

These would be great as escape vehicles for space stations.

[@WWeronko]

The solution for the ESA's Vega problem is to launch their satellite on a Falcon 9. It would hurt, however, it would get the job done.

[@meltdown7259]

Go tenacity!

[@MrFlaviojosefus]

What do you think about a manned version? Why it takes so long to develop an unmanned version, anyway?

[@ervinlima9678]

It looks just like John Chriton’s space plane on Farscape. Farscape was awesome.

[@nathanielturner5689]

I think Dream Chaser looks similar to a fictional spaceship called the Farscape module. Refer to the series called "Farscape" starting around 2000

[@kyleeames8229]

Avio, use shulker boxes and a sorting system, n00b!

[@DouglasLippi]

Dream Chaser looks sweet! I wish them great success. I wish they'd refresh the Space Shuttle. Dream Chaser for just manned missions and Shuttle for cargo missions. Like having both a car and truck.

[@darinladd5312]

no; like having a car and a giant roman candle. shuttle design was terrible...it never met its turnaround promised (like two per month), and had an abysmal safety record. just say "no" to buran!

[@scoutdynamics3272]

@@darinladd5312 Strip the Shuttle down to its bare airframe and refit it with Dream Chaser thermal tiles, avionics, and other modern systems. You would need Space X's Super heavy for its booster which would remove the SSME's making more like Buran

[@darinladd5312]

Yes, it is technically possible (except the solid booster idea, discussed below); although, at their current age and condition the shuttles cannot be returned to service. Even if they could, and were literally sitting on the launch pad in the configuration you recommend, the cost per launch of launching a shuttle will NEVER match that of any rocket--reusable, or otherwise. It can't (by design). Plus, remember that the shuttle's main engines are used with an external liquid fuel tank, so they could not simply be retrofitted with a new solid booster (or two, or three). @@scoutdynamics3272

[@angrymokyuu9475]

A pure cargo variant of the space shuttle was considered, but ultimately canned since very few payloads actually benefit from the orbiter.

[@Wrangler-fp4ei]

The fuel transfer will be interesting. S28 is already out of the Megabay, if they did mods to the ship to allow for the transfer it will already have been done . Hopewell can get a gleem into them doing the transfer. I'd hate to s e a last minute mod done to the ship. They're still trying get ship into orbit without any mechanical failure like S25 exploding.

[@ryansmith1115]

Nice. A space shuttle looking craft instead the same old rockets

[@MarkAClarke]

Is me or does Dreamchaser look like John Crithons ship from Farscape 😂😂😂.

[@thedoorider]

oh my!!

[@PatrickLavigne]

Bro if you're ever in quebec, holla'at ya boy! Montreal or quebec I'll meet you there and we go out.

[@DragonKingGaav]

Stargazer!!!

[@joseorta13]

Mini shuttle

[@SMerlin73]

reminds me of the space ship from FarScape

[@kstricl]

Since I came from the newest video on the channel, it looks to me that SpaceX is probably targeting a double launch in 2024. If they can get two platforms into orbit and do the transfer successfully, they can keep Artemis on track - at least for their part.

[@andymouse]

Losing a couple of tanks is almost unbelievable. Heads will roll Lol !....cheers.

[@9OClockRant]

Would they have the money to go into production?

[@BiGG_X]

6:40 and the Starship landing on the moon isnt going destroy the landing area and possibly just fall over? I know its not like the boosters destroying the launch pad, but Space X is much larger than the Apollo and will require a lot of thrust to nail the landing.

[@jcdisci]

2024 will be remembered as the year humanity truly became a spacefaring civilization.

[@josepaulosf]

This decade will probably be so singular and relevant in space exploration history as was the Apollo Era

[@bigmike9128]

​@@josepaulosfbeat me too this comment.

[@jameswilson4732]

Not impressive. We should have been doing this in the 1990s. None of this technology besides the computers is even more advanced than we had in the 1980s

[@Time2gojoe]

​​@@jameswilson4732apparently you never heard of the space shuttle.. the most famous space craft in history

[@johndoe8785]

​@@Time2gojoe Yeh it's a decades old platform that houses systems dating back to the 80's, like he said. Yes it's an impressive aircraft but it's archaic.

[@RichieBagoDonuts]

So we got a new space pickup truck...... Nice

[@randybentley2633]

A 3rd option for Vega would be to 3d print new tanks...

[@jonny3003]

Bummer. Really sad to see that ESA is incompetent and inflexible at the same time. They are too inflexible to build some more Ariane 5 rockets to fill the time gap because the developement of Ariane 6 is delayed. Their new Vega-C rocket exploded already two times and now they are so incompetent to "lose" two tanks of the the old Vega rocket. And now they are too inflexible again to rebuild those two tanks? Big facepalm! At the same time a private space company is very close to reaching 100 launches of a reusable rockets this year, the same company ESA was launghing at some years ago when they started to try reusing an orbital class rocket!

[@DouglasLippi]

7:58 propellant transfer in my mind is the biggest risk of failure for Artemis III.

[@maxll85431]

NASA said it will take 20 starship tank to refuel just one lander.

[@Guanaalex]

Thank you for building HERMES, - with a different name.

[@darinladd5312]

dyna soar with a different name.

[@efugee]

why do we have to re-enter the atmosphere fast? Cant we use engines to descend slowly so it doesn't cause fire to develop on the tiles?

[@tmzwcky]

Beyond the fuel transfer challenges, I'm _really_ having trouble seeing how they're going to get the Starship human-rated in anywhere near time for Artemis

[@Dag0n3t]

i'm just waiting on the postponement to be announced, It feels inevitable at this point.

[@anonymousart5546]

I love how Dream Chaser looks like a sci-fi re-entry vehicle named Komusai

[@n00bnetrum]

"Yuope has a problem" Yeah, that about sums it up.

[@fldon2306]

Lifting Bodies testing began in the 1960’s… Remember the “Six Million Dollar Man” opening, was a 2-Vertical Tail model… A shape similar to Dream Chaser’s was also proven… What’s old is new again!!

[@yomanyo327]

Dream chaser is the only vehicle that I care about outside SpaceX, maybe RocketLab, but they're a distant third.

[@darinladd5312]

they repurposed the usaf dyna soar design from the 60s. it was a better design than the shuttle to begin with. adding an external cargo bay solves the dyna soar problem, and the lifting body design solves the shuttle's problem. with a slight paradigm shift.

[@ronaldwhite1730]

Thank you . ( 2023 / Dec / 20 )

[@Moontrue1on1]

Sovjet build on in the 60s

[@TheCharlos64]

Hope you will have a good time in Quebec :)

[@tjtarget2690]

Notification Squad! :)

[@PuNicAdbo]

Suddenly the thumbnail changed. 😳

[@jamesbond_007]

if ESA is *that* concerned about getting their satellite to orbit quickly, there is a space launch provider that's relatively inexpensive, highly reliable, and will have capacity to launch sooner than late 2024 (which I'm guessing is an optimistic estimate). Not S naming P any A names C here E but X you can probably figure out who I'm talking about ;)

[@smallcode9981]

Dream Chaser == MiG 105

[@darinladd5312]

= dyna soar.

[@JigilJigil]

Sorry to disappoint you, but it is based on Boeing X20 Dyna-Soar, actually Russians stole and copied the tech & the design, Soviet Mig-105 or BOR-4 were in 60s and 80s respectively while United States Air Force was working on X-20 Dyna-Soar in 50s.

[@ryansmith1115]

Now to build something like Sojourner from for all mankind

[@michaelgrabowski467]

Dream chaser looks like a giant Nike with wings! 👍🤣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

[@lancasterhypnotherapy]

2025 launch of Artemis 3 to land humans on the Moon was never realistic. 2027....Maybe but a lot of technical hurdles remain including dual starship refueling test and a non human starship demonstration landing must occur before NASA commits humans

[@TheSpaceRaceYT]

Agreed, 2025 always seemed incredibly ambitious

[@frankmcgowan9457]

True enough but I'm guessing that if NASA runs interference with the federal bureaucracy, we will all be amazed at what they accomplish and how quickly the get it done.

[@Rezinstance]

I saw the design and the first thing to come to my mind was "Farscape."

[@bertilbusch]

When will we see a dream chaser mounted onto a dragon & falcon (9/heavy)?

[@aaronfk9240]

😂😂😂 Looks mysteriously similar to the one the military uses and the Phantom 'Aurora Project' craft. Finally, done, huh? It has state of the art tech, I bet! 😅

[@RickyD1968]

This is cool but small they need a space craft like the space shuttle but new and improved, So they can take big things to and from space ????

[@darinladd5312]

absolutely incorrect. i'll let you do your own research as to why....

[@prisoneroffortune]

If we are going to explore space can we all take time to think about what we will do there because if it's about making the same mess there as we do here it ain't worth it.

[@chrisingold7711]

It goes back to Dyna soar program

[@darinladd5312]

1957-1963.

[@nicoj888]

You could easily guess which photos where which device, all Sony pics are warmer

[@oldman9642]

SpaceX can launch it.

[@dannypope1860]

Dream chaser is SOOO small! They should have doubled its size… then it would be mildly useful.

[@winslowjoy2629]

Then what would launch it?

[@iainriley617]

When/if (sorry open minded) we went to the moon the LEM only had a few steps down . So how the hell are they going to be able to leave the lander when they land if they land . Dam they need some long steps .

[@kastenolsen9577]

A good book on how to frugally colonize our solar system is Second Exodus Colony. Located at the Internet Archives.

[@edsherwook5196]

‘Years to put on the tiles’ imagine space x saying that

[@ryuurikwarframe7076]

0:25 It resembles the Black knight satellite...

[@piotrkotynia4415]

Nice! Can someone explain why NASA is going to use SLA? SpaceX Starship (100 people capacity) could do the whole work alone without SLA (4 people capacity)... is it about the timing as Starship is not prepared for people transport yet? But the plans assume it would be to hold people as a moon lander so it is not the valid argument...hmm...

[@tails0420ify]

Looks like the Farscape One.

[@KernowMan68]

The Dream Chaser Space Craft looks like a bigger version of the one from the Farscape TV Series.

[@vladimirnikolskiy]

No, it looks like a bad copy of the Soviet Spiral project.

[@seedubyu]

Mini shuttle, suppose it will be ok for the sandwich run.....

[@maxll85431]

Its a bad idea to use starship as the moon lander. Its the largest spaceship ever made so it will take alot fuel to get it to the moon, land and back to earth. NASA said they think it will take 20 starship tanks per moon landing and Elon thinks it would take only 8 but he is always too optimistic. Thats more then all the launches from Apollo mission for just one landing. Second is that starship is 160ft tall and will need to land on moon regolith not a concrete landing pad. So the chance for it to sink and then fall over are much high then a small more stable ship.

[@thexfile.]

The flying shoe.

[@user-ot7nt9tb2q]

DON'T WAIT, launch it on a Falcon heavy. Come on, someone make a command decision.

[@billthecat7536]

"Boss, bad news. I misplaced 2 rockets stages."

[@vladimirnikolskiy]

According to experts, the American Dream Chaser is neither more nor less than an unsuccessfully copied Soviet "BOR" (Spiral), which qualified American engineers managed to recreate only partially...

[@georgejenkins8063]

Damn it !! Don't you know I watch all your shit... !! I was 10 minutes into this before I realized I had watched it Before !! I'm 70 yo and my Dad used to say the same thing when he was 83 !! But he didn't mind as he could watch his favorite TV show two days in a row !! ...and actually I'm just give you a hard time, it happens all the time, but I did think I had a new drop... until 10 minutes in... and Thank You, Sir... again Sir... !! ... lol...!!

[@stormbowman7148]

They SO need to paint one to look like Gizmo Duck…