Wanna watch a craft from space land in Huntsville? That could happen. 🚀🚀🚀
Rocket City? Huntsville topped its well-known nickname today with the right to call itself Space City.
The license will let the airport offer landing services for the Sierra Space Dream Chaser spacecraft when it is returning to Earth from future NASA resupply missions to the International Space Station, the FAA announcement says. The license is valid for five years, and Sierra Space has said it plans to land Dream Chaser at least once at the Huntsville airport.
“Our region has been collaborating for years to become the first commercial airport to land a space launch vehicle,” said Port of Huntsville Board of Directors Chairman Mark McDaniel said when the airport applied for the license in 2021. “We are excited for this next phase of the application process and look forward to moving our community closer to this opportunity.”
Sierra Space, a spinoff company, was formed by its parent company Sierra Nevada Corp., because Sierra Nevada said there is so much potential in space transport that it needed a sole-focus entity. Sierra Space is “developing the Dream Chaser, a reusable reentry vehicle capable of carrying payloads to and from low Earth orbit, including delivering supplies to the International Space Station under Commercial Resupply Services 2 contract,” the FAA said.
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