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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The military's small, top-secret version of the space shuttle rocketed into orbit Tuesday for a repeat mystery mission, two years after making the first flight of its kind. The Air Force launched the unmanned spacecraft Tuesday hidden on top of an Atlas V rocket, sent by United Launch Alliance. It's the second flight for this original X-37B spaceplane. It circled the planet for seven months in 2010. A second X-37B spacecraft spent more than a year in orbit. These high-tech mystery machines -- 29 feet long -- are about one-quarter the size of NASA's old space shuttles and can land automatically on a runway. The two previous touchdowns occurred in Southern California; this one might end on NASA's three-mile-long runway once reserved for the space agency's shuttles. Read more: www.foxnews.com...
thanks for that i figured it wouldnt be that easy and i guess it was a really dumb question
Originally posted by Twilightgem
reply to post by billy565
Those of us in Phoenix worry because we have that huge reactor nearby. Although, this satellite wouldn't be my biggest worry from N.K. as far as Phoenix goes. I've been hoping he likes the Suns and would spare Phoenix.
Originally posted by openeyeswideshut
reply to post by Vasa Croe
What you linked to I think is the international space station.
This is KMS 3-2 here, and it passes over Europe and Africa not North America.
Originally posted by scotsdavy1
Well on the same note, America launched a small sort of unmanned copy of the shuttle last December without us knowing what it's payload is. It,was,in orbit for nearly a year before landing then back up again.
It could have the same kind of thing the OP is saying as well.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The military's small, top-secret version of the space shuttle rocketed into orbit Tuesday for a repeat mystery mission, two years after making the first flight of its kind. The Air Force launched the unmanned spacecraft Tuesday hidden on top of an Atlas V rocket, sent by United Launch Alliance. It's the second flight for this original X-37B spaceplane. It circled the planet for seven months in 2010. A second X-37B spacecraft spent more than a year in orbit. These high-tech mystery machines -- 29 feet long -- are about one-quarter the size of NASA's old space shuttles and can land automatically on a runway. The two previous touchdowns occurred in Southern California; this one might end on NASA's three-mile-long runway once reserved for the space agency's shuttles. Read more: www.foxnews.com...
edit on 8-4-2013 by scotsdavy1 because: (no reason given)