{"id":155505,"date":"2023-01-14T20:22:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T02:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/meet-the-dream-chaser-the-supersonic-space-craft-taking-on-blue-origin-and-virgin-galactic"},"modified":"2023-01-14T20:22:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T02:22:20","slug":"meet-the-dream-chaser-the-supersonic-space-craft-taking-on-blue-origin-and-virgin-galactic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/meet-the-dream-chaser-the-supersonic-space-craft-taking-on-blue-origin-and-virgin-galactic","title":{"rendered":"Meet the \u2018Dream Chaser,\u2019 the Supersonic Space Craft Taking on Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meet-the-dream-chaser-the-supersonic-space-craft-taking-on-blue-origin-and-virgin-galactic.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Will the supersonic Dream Chaser soon be competing with Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin in the space-tourism race? That\u2019s the plan\u2014eventually.<\/p>\n<p>Sierra Space is developing the Dream Chaser as the world\u2019s \u201cfirst and only winged commercial spaceplane.\u201d The aircraft is designed to take off atop a rocket, and then return to Earth on its own wings, landing itself much as the original space shuttle designs.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The radical spaceplane will use New Mexico\u2019s Spaceport America as part of a global network for takeoff and landing with \u201chigh-value\u201d payloads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will the supersonic Dream Chaser soon be competing with Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin in the space-tourism race? That\u2019s the plan\u2014eventually. Sierra Space is developing the Dream Chaser as the world\u2019s \u201cfirst and only winged commercial spaceplane.\u201d The aircraft is designed to take off atop a rocket, and then return to Earth on its own [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}