Since years, Mark Sirangelo along with his team at the Sierra Nevada Corp. has been working to develop a new space craft to take astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). However, the US space agency, NASA, has rejected it ultimately. The agency has awarded multi-billion dollar contracts to Boeing and SpaceX, both of which are Sierra Nevada's competitors.

The decision was protested by Sierra Nevada, but fell unfortunate in that too. It seems like the program is finalized, and the time and efforts performed to develop the Dream Chaser, a somewhat miniature space shuttle, has all gone in vain. All of a sudden, the state-of-the-art spacecraft was similar to a taxi driving around, but has no customer.

At that time, Sirangelo said that the decision was like a death in the family. However, the company hasn’t given up. Sirangelo and his fellow executives have planned that the company would enter the spacecraft into the coming main NASA procurement competition, and this time, their aim will be to fly a cargo to the space station.

The Dream Chaser was a space plane made for people, and not supplies. And they didn’t have sufficient time to come up with another version of the vehicle. After meeting the past loss, which hit hard to be taken personally, they have become more motivated, and have channelized their anger towards the redesigned cargo version.

In a session with reporters on Friday, the corporate director of Sierra Nevada's Space Systems division, Sirangelo, said, “Let's look at all these things we've been told and make sure we address every one of them”.

Steve Lindsey, the company's senior director of programs, mentioned that the failure has made them take a hard look at their drawbacks and prompting them to be quite introspective.