15:13 EDT and traveled 5.3 million miles and landed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Dream Chaser On March 19, 2013, NASA announced that Archambault was leaving the agency after 15 years in order to join Sierra Nevada Corporation. Archambault will work on Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser lifting-body spaceplane, which is being developed under NASA's Commercial Crew Development program as a potential vehicle for future crewed and uncrewed cargo missions to the International Space Station. Like the Space Shuttle, which Archambault has previously flown, Dream Chaser is designed to launch vertically and land horizontally on a runway. Unpowered drop tests of a Dream Chaser test article are planned at Edwards Air Force Base, where Archambault previously landed the Space Shuttle at the end of STS-117. DeHavilland Dash 8 Turboprop In early March 2019, Archambault obtained his type rating in the Bombardier Dash 8, previously known as the de Havilland Canada Dash 8 or DHC-8, a series of twin-engine, medium-range, turboprop airliners. Archambault currently flies the Dash 8 part-time. See also References External links NASA biography Spacefacts biography of Lee Archambault 1960 births Living people United States Air Force personnel of the Gulf War American test pilots Aviators from Illinois People from Oak Park, Illinois Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United States) Recipients of the Air Medal United States Air Force colonels United States Air Force astronauts Grainger College of Engineering alumni U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School alumni Space Shuttle program astronauts Recipients of the Meritorious Service Medal (United States) Military personnel from Illinois