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Meet The Unknown Immigrant Billionaire Betting Her Fortune To Take On Musk In Space
Indeed, even in the swelled spending plan universe of aviation, $650 million is truckload of cash. It's roughly the cost of six of Boeing's workhorse 737s or, for the more militarily leaned, about the expense of seven F-35 secrecy warrior jets. It's additionally how much cash NASA and the Sierra Nevada Corp. spent fostering the Fantasy Chaser, a reusable shuttle intended to bring space travelers into space. Sierra Nevada, which is situated in Flashes, Nevada, and 100 percent possessed by Eren Ozmen and her better half, Fatih, put in $300 million; NASA made good the other $350 million. The Fantasy Chaser's most memorable free flight was in October 2013 when it was dropped 12,500 feet from a helicopter. The arrival gear broke down, and the vehicle slipped off the runway after landing. After a year, NASA passed on Sierra Nevada's space plane and granted the multibillion-dollar agreements to Boeing and SpaceX.
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