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This Dream Chaser thing reminds me a rarely known USSR orbital "passanger" spaceplane MiG-105[1] from 70s codenamed "Spiral", as it shares same concept. It made
by ruslan 3y ago
This Dream Chaser thing reminds me a rarely known USSR orbital "passanger" spaceplane MiG-105[1] from 70s codenamed "Spiral", as it shares same concept. It made a couple of successful suborbital flights, but then the programme was cancelled in favour of Buran[2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-105 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-105
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)
- smoyer 3y agoIt reminds me of the space craft that inspired the crash at the beginning of each episode of "The Six Million Dollar Man" - https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/crash-made-famous-tv https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/crash-made-famo...
- cubefox 3y agoThe Ars Technica piece mentions that the Dream Chaser design goes back to spy footage of the Soviet BOR-4, which is also mentioned in the first Wikipedia article.