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Dream Chaser space plane soars through first drop test, skids off runway [i]A prototype for a commercial space plane designed to taxi astronauts to Earth orbit and back performed its first drop test Saturday (Oct. 26), gliding to a successful touchdown, but immediately suffering damage due to a landing gear problem that caused the unmanned mini-space shuttle to skid off the runway, its builder said on Tuesday. The Dream Chaser winged shuttlecraft, built by Colorado-based Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC), carried out its first-ever autonomous approach and landing test over the weekend at Edwards Air Force Base in southern California. As the engineering test article touched down on the same runway once used by the space shuttle, the vehicle encountered an issue deploying its left-side landing gear.[/i]
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