Manufactured by the Sierra Nevada Corporation, it will first fly to the International Space Station as part of the SSC Demo-1 mission in May 2025 under the CRS-2 contract.

[2] The Sierra Nevada Corporation was awarded a CRS-2 contract for by NASA for six operational resupply spaceflights to the International Space Station.

[3] Tenacity and other Dream Chasers will be mated with a Shooting Star module, which will provide an additional 10,000 lb (4,500 kg) of payload capacity, in addition to the 2,000 lb (910 kg) carried by the spaceplane.

Additionally, the Vulcan Centaur rocket that will carry it had its maiden flight in 8 January 2024, paving the way for Tenacity's first launch.

[6] The Sierra Space team named its first orbit-capable Dream Chaser Tenacity as a tribute to all the years of hard work they undertook for the spacecraft to reach its maiden flight.