{"id":165094,"date":"2023-06-04T00:22:57","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T05:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/dream-chaser-space-shuttle-like-spaceplane-could-soon-fly-to-orbit-after-acing-key-test"},"modified":"2023-06-04T00:22:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T05:22:57","slug":"dream-chaser-space-shuttle-like-spaceplane-could-soon-fly-to-orbit-after-acing-key-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/dream-chaser-space-shuttle-like-spaceplane-could-soon-fly-to-orbit-after-acing-key-test","title":{"rendered":"Dream Chaser: Space Shuttle-like spaceplane could soon fly to orbit after acing key test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dream-chaser-space-shuttle-like-spaceplane-could-soon-fly-to-orbit-after-acing-key-test2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a \u201ckey moment in a long journey for Dream Chaser,\u201d which could fly to orbit for the first time this year.<\/p>\n<p>Sierra Space successfully carried out a key test on its Dream Chaser spaceplane, which is designed to lift passengers to the International Space Station (ISS) and Orbital Reef, the private orbital station it\u2019s developing alongside Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado-based Sierra Space announced in a press statement that it has successfully powered up its spaceplane for the first time. The new milestone means Dream Chaser isn\u2019t too far away from performing its first orbital flight test, currently scheduled for this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a \u201ckey moment in a long journey for Dream Chaser,\u201d which could fly to orbit for the first time this year. Sierra Space successfully carried out a key test on its Dream Chaser spaceplane, which is designed to lift passengers to the International Space Station (ISS) and Orbital Reef, the private orbital station [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165094","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}