Space taxi will fly test next year

The 7-seat space taxi carrying astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) will be the first to fly in the summer of 2012.

Dream Chaser, 7-sea space taxi of the Sierra Nevada company, was selected for the first test flight in the summer of 2012. Dream Chaser is 1 in 4 cosmic taxis being developed by the public. Private company, with partial funding from the US government.

Dream Chaser space taxi will be flying for the first time next year

In the next year's test, Dream Chaser will be airlifted by transport aircraft WhiteKnightTwo. This transport plane was used to bring the SpaceShipTwo commercial spacecraft to Virgin Galactic in the air during a test flight in 2010.

Ed Mango, director of the US Space Agency's Commercial Spacecraft Program (NASA), told Reuters , Dream Chaser's first test flight will take place at Edwards air base in the Mojave desert. California state, or from White Sands Missile Launching Center in New Mexico state.

Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser spacecraft project received a total investment of $ 105.6 million from NASA. In addition to this project, NASA is also cooperating to develop commercial spacecraft with Boeing, Space Exploration Technologies and Blue Origin.

NASA hopes the US astronauts' transport will be delivered to one or two trading companies before the end of 2016. Currently, NASA is dependent on Russia for bringing astronauts to the ISS, after The shuttle program ends this summer.

Space travel in the future will come true.Dream Chaser will be airlifted by transport aircraft WhiteKnightTwo.

Along with helping private companies develop commercial space taxis, NASA is developing new generation rocket and spacecraft systems to serve the mission of exploring meteorites, the Moon, why Fire and locations above orbit of the ISS station. It is expected that NASA's new rocket system will be completed in 2017.