{"id":189519,"date":"2024-05-16T11:23:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T16:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/the-new-dream-chaser-spacecraft-prepares-to-visit-the-international-space-station"},"modified":"2024-05-16T11:23:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T16:23:49","slug":"the-new-dream-chaser-spacecraft-prepares-to-visit-the-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/the-new-dream-chaser-spacecraft-prepares-to-visit-the-international-space-station","title":{"rendered":"The New \u2018Dream Chaser\u2019 Spacecraft Prepares to Visit the International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-new-dream-chaser-spacecraft-prepares-to-visit-the-international-space-station2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sierra Space\u2019s Dream Chaser is set to make its inaugural trip to orbit to deliver supplies to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>By <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/sarah-scoles\/\">Sarah Scoles<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With its perpetually upturned pectoral fins, and blunt nose, the Dream Chaser looks more like a killer whale than a spacecraft. But unlike an orca, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/sierra-nevada-s-space-plane-in-the-chase-with-spacex-and-boeing-to-win-nasa-nod\/\">Dream Chaser<\/a> will soon be going to orbit: it\u2019s set to take food and supplies to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/nasa-may-pay-1-billion-to-destroy-the-international-space-station-heres-why\/\">the International Space Station<\/a> (ISS) later this year when it travels to space for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sierra Space\u2019s Dream Chaser is set to make its inaugural trip to orbit to deliver supplies to the International Space Station. By Sarah Scoles With its perpetually upturned pectoral fins, and blunt nose, the Dream Chaser looks more like a killer whale than a spacecraft. But unlike an orca, the Dream Chaser will soon be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189519","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}