Military to Test NASA Space Plane

Military to Test NASA Space Plane

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Aug. 12, 2008 -- Just as NASA is going out of the reusable spaceship business, the military is sticking its toe in the proverbial waters with a hand-me-down program salvaged from the cutting room floor.

The U.S. Air Force is a bit vague on details, but the gist of the plan is this: Sometime in December, an unmanned Atlas 5 rocket is to blast off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., carrying a prototype spaceship called the X-37B into orbit.

The experimental craft (that's what the X stands for) is to spend an undetermined number of days in space, circling the planet, before landing autonomously at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

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Yeah, like they don't already have this in use as I type this. is there any known corner of the universe that the military has not already gotten their sticky hands all over?

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The real disconnect here is the notion that is presented by the title. The meme that NASA is a civilian agency is still being promoted.

The title should say "Military to test Military space plane".

It's not like NASA isn't subordinate to the DoD.

Still it's a good article - thanks for posting it.

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Yeah, like they don't already have this in use as I type this. is there any known corner of the universe that the military has not already gotten their sticky hands all over?

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You can be sure they have stuff far ahead of this crap. They're just trying to put on a false front and make us think that this is their current level of technology. We're hundreds of years ahead of this.

Something posted on this very topic already
www.abovetopsecret.com...