Wednesday, November 30, 2011


No landing — yet — for mystery space plane

November 29th, 2011, 12:28 pm · · posted by



The first X-37B spaceplane just after landing at Vandenberg Air Force Base in December. A second version is now in orbit. Courtesy Vandenberg Air Force Base.
It looks a lot like a tiny version of the space shuttle, and it’s been in space for months.
But the X-37B, a robotic space plane built by Boeing in Huntington Beach, won’t be coming home just yet.
Despite earlier reports that the mysterious craft would land this week at Vandenberg Air
Force Base, its flight — already nine months long — is being extended, Air Force officials said Tuesday.

MORE: http://sciencedude.ocregister.com/2011/11/29/no-landing-yet-for-mystery-space-plane/164533/

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