"Kulvinder Singh Matharu" wrote in message
...
Somewhat similar to the Soviet Spiral space plane, but the Dream
Chaser looks much bigger:
http://www.buran.ru/images/jpg/model1.jpg

That's because NASA copied (with some improvement) the Soviet Spiral design
when it created the HL-20. There was much copying back and forth during the
Cold War, but the US doesn't generally like to admit that we would ever copy
anything the Soviet Union did first.

Jeff
--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor
safety"
- B. Franklin, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919)