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Robot Spaceplane To Launch In 2008

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the I-still-want-my-hover-car dept.

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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  1. Re:Buran -- what's in a name? by Andy+Gardner · · Score: 3, Funny
    At the risk of being one of those grammer fascists--

    Oh dear...