Chaffee

The Chaffee was a Federation Chaffee-type shuttlepod that was in service with Starfleet in the late 24th century, attached to the . It was shuttle 01.

In late 2374, Benjamin Sisko, Miles O'Brien, and Julian Bashir used the Chaffee to enter the atmosphere of a class L planet to rescue Lisa Cusak. The use of the pod was preferred because its power systems did not utilize antimatter, and made it possible for the pod to survive travel through the exotic energy field surrounding the planet. ()

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Background information 
The Chaffee was designated as Defiant shuttlecraft 1. 

The  stated this shuttlecraft was "named for  astronaut  and was designed by Doug Drexler."

Image Foundation Imaging 3D Models by Brandon MacDougall and Koji Koji Kuramura.

Apocrypha 
According to the Deep Space Nine Mission Gamma novel , the shuttlecraft Chaffee survived the destruction of the Defiant at the Second Battle of Chin'toka in 2375, as it was mentioned being assigned to the second  also. The shuttlecraft Chaffee also appears in the Star Trek: Gateways novel Demons of Air and Darkness and the Star Trek: Divided We Fall comic "". The comic also features the Sagan, another Type-10 shutlecraft.

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