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Sierra Nevada Selects ULA’s Vulcan Centaur for NASA Missions

By Vivienne Machi

Wednesday, August 14th, 2019

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Sierra Nevada Selects ULA’s Vulcan Centaur for NASA Missions

A rendering of United Launch Alliance's forthcoming Vulcan Centaur heavy-lift rocket, which is expected to be fielded in 2021. (Image: ULA)

Sierra Nevada Corp. [SNC] has selected United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) forthcoming launch vehicle to help deliver cargo to the International Space Station beginning in 2021. SNC Chairwoman and President Eren Ozmen and CEO Fatih Ozmen announced Aug. 14 the company's selection of ULA’s Vulcan Centaur rocket for the Dream Chaser spacecraft’s six NASA missions heading to the ISS beginning in late 2021. The partnership was announced at a press conference at SNC’s Louisville, Colorado, location also attended by ULA’s president…

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