Northwest Helicopter's Steve Watson holds the cable for launch of Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser scale model on it's first captive-carry flight on Dec. 7, 2010, as pilot Doug Uttecht maneuvers Northwest's Bell 206 Jet Ranger to take it up. NASA photo / Tony Landis. NASA Dryden supported helicopter air-drop flight tests of a 5-foot-long, 15-percent scale model of the Sierra Nevada Corporation's (SNC) Dream Chaser spacecraft design under a Space Act Agreement between the two organizations.
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