American used to have a fleet of Space Ships….
They where nowhere about Star Trek Galaxy Cruiser like the NCCC Enterprise…
They where Space Shuttles that about the size of a smallish commercial jetliner…
That program was cancelled after explosive crashes….
America now uses the Russian space system to get it’s astronauts to the International Space Station…
Sometime soon a private effort will send American astronauts back into space…
They will travel in the means….
Capsules….
The one Space Ship available is the Sierra Nevada Dream Chaser…
It is a Space Ship…
America doesn’t want it….Except to bring cargo to the International Space Station…
And?
The United Nations has signed on to have Space Ship make flights for countries that do have the capability to have their own space ship….
The Dream Chaser Cargo System is an American reusable lifting body spaceplane being developed by Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Space Systems. The Dream Chaser is designed to resupply the International Space Station with both pressurized and unpressurized cargo. The vehicle will launch vertically on an Atlas V or Ariane 5 rocket, and autonomously land horizontally on conventional runways. Potential further development of the spaceplane includes a crewed version called the Dream Chaser Space System, which would be capable of carrying up to seven people to and from low Earth orbit….
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In January 2016, Sierra Nevada signed a contract with NASA to provide at least six CRS2 missions to the space station. As of March 2019, the validation of NASA’s Integrated Review Milestone 5 (IR5)[90] [91] confirms that development is still ongoing at a nominal pace.
The cargo Dream Chaser was selected by UNOOSA in 2016 for the first United Nations space mission, to allow nations without access to space to fly microgravity experiments. First flight is planned no earlier than 2021….
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