American shuttle was damaged after testing

The new generation shuttle Dream Chaser has a free flight test for the first time on October 26 but was damaged because the landing unit had a problem.

>>> NASA tests the new generation shuttle

The Dream Chaser was broken in the landing gear and could not be deployed as planned. The damage has not yet been assessed by managers, but the Dream Chaser will be repaired after a glitch at the Edwards airbase runway in California was discovered.

Ship Dream Chaser in an experiment.(Photo: NASA)

The landing gear of the Dream Chaser used in this test was a landing gear that moved from the F-5E fighter plane. It is expected that the future version of Dream Chaser will use a different design.

The Dream Chaser project is funded by NASA $ 227.5 million and is part of a spacecraft development program to bring American astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2017.

The Dream Chaser is based on a NASA design for 20 years and is the only winged spacecraft among the proposed alternatives. When put into use, Dream Chaser will be equipped with a 5-rocket engine, which can carry 7 astronauts and cargo into space and return to Earth at the end of the mission.

The unmanned test flight on October 26 of the space shuttle Dream Chaser is an important milestone. Over the past few months, the Dream Chaser has also undergone many other tests in which the test was 3,700m high when the ship was lifted by a helicopter.