The Dream Chaser space plane took a public step forward Wednesday when a helicopter dangled the craft on a flight over a California desert testing the spaceship’s in-air systems and other features.

Sierra Space's "mini shuttle" Dream Chaser space plane may make its maiden flight in May after launching atop a rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Pre-flight testing continues at NASA's ...

The Dream Chaser space plane was integrated with the 'Shooting Star' module at NASA's Armstrong Test Facility in Ohio. Sierra ...

For years, Sierra Space has been working on Dream Chaser, primarily out of sight while plans changed and deadlines faltered.

Early next year, crews should break ground on a half-million-square-foot spacecraft processing facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center that will prep Sierra Space's uncrewed Dream Chaser space plane ...

Sierra Space had been looking to join SpaceX and Northrop Grumman as one of three commercial resupply partners for NASA aiming to fly its Dream Chaser spacecraft to the International Space Station.