Robot Spaceplane To Launch In 2008

FleaPlus writes "The US Air Force has announced that it is developing an unmanned reusable spaceplane, the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle. The first launch is in 2008 on an Atlas V rocket. The X-37B will be one-fourth the size of the Space Shuttle and serve as a testbed for technologies for future reusable spacecraft. Its predecessor, the X-37, was drop-tested from the Scaled Composites White Knight mothership earlier this year."

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i cant beleive no one has asked..

[PenguSven]

But will it run linux?

Re:Buran -- what's in a name?

[stormeru]

Max Faget had a straight-wing Shuttle proposalAnd now you tell me that the fags don't like landing on rockets anymore? What's wrong with these people? :|