Dreamchaser and VIP's

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Michael Gass, president and CEO of United Launch Alliance, or ULA, left, talks to Mark Sirangelo, corporate vice president and head of Sierra Nevada Corporation, or SNC, Space Systems at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Behind the duo is ULA’s Atlas V rocket, which will carry NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-L, or TDRS-L, into orbit. SNC announced it plans to work with ULA to launch the Dream Chaser spacecraft into orbit in November 2016 intends to land the winged spacecraft at the 3.5-mile-long runway at Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility lease office space at Exploration Park, right outside Kennedy’s gates and process the spacecraft in the high bay of the Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy, with Lockheed Martin performing the work. The announcements made during a news conference at Kennedy are considered substantial for SNC and important to plans by NASA and Space Florida for Kennedy’s transformation into a multi-user spaceport for both commercial and government customers. Photo credit: NASA/Cory Huston