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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. Air Force Bake Sale by Doc+Ruby · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, that does sound pretty cool. But not when we're spending a $TRILLION on the rest of the Pentagon every year, and something like 12% of Americans are starving.

    I'm all for space exploration/colonization/exploitation (though not unnecessarily weaponizing space, which this program does). I'm even more for investing in Americans on Earth, to use our people power to do things that space drones cannot. Like feed each other.

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  2. you Fail It... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    but It's not a