Sierra Nevada Corp. Completes First Milestone on ISS Commercial Cargo Contract

Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC), who won one of three contracts from NASA in January to deliver cargo to the International Space Station, said July 11 that it is has completed the first milestone under that award.

The company said that NASA approved of its program integration plan for the design, development, test and evaluation of SNC’s Dream Chaser vehicle. The company did not disclose the value of any payment it received from NASA for completing the plan.

The milestone is the first in the company’s Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) 2 contract it received from NASA in January to transport cargo to and from the ISS. SNC was one of three companies to receive CRS-2 contracts, along with Orbital Sciences Corp. and SpaceX, who won the original CRS cargo contracts in 2008. Each company is guaranteed at least six cargo flights though the mid-2020s.

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