NASA's Future

With its last Shuttle flight scheduled for later this morning, NASA is already looking towards the future. The Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral has found some work for its work force, soon to be surplus. They'll provide launch and post-flight technical assistance to a Nevada company, Sierra Nevada Space Systems. The company has developed a reusable spacecraft called Dream Chaser. It's in the running to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station. Sierra Nevada already has agreements with NASA's Johnson Space Flight Center in Houston and two other locations. The Dream Chaser looks like a shrunken version of the Shuttle.