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Narrator: Sierra Nevada Corporation's Dream Chaser flight vehicle recently passed one of its most

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complex tests to date with a successful captive-carry demonstration near the Rocky Mountain

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Metropolitan Airport in Colorado.

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Backdropped by skyscraping summits, an Erickson Air-Crane helicopter lifted the full-scale spacecraft to

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verify proper aerodynamic flight performance.

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Data from the captive-carry will help the company work toward an even more ambitious free-flight test,

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where the spacecraft will be dropped to evaluate the landing phase of a mission.