Agreement paves the way for possible Sierra Space landings in New Mexico
LOUISVILLE — Louisville’s Sierra Space Corp. reach is growing well beyond its Boulder County home turf.
Just weeks after the Sierra Nevada Corp. spinoff announced the establishment of its Human Spaceflight Center and Astronaut Training Academy at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to train astronauts for commercial missions, SSC inked a memorandum of understanding with Spaceport America in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, to serve as a potential landing site for the Dream Chaser space plane.
SSC has similar agreements with NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and airports and landing sites in Huntsville, Alabama; Oita Airport, Japan; and…
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