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US Air Force's Mysterious X-37B Space Plane Passes 500 Days in Orbit
Space.com ^ | Aril 24, 2014 | Mike Wall, Senior Writer

Posted on 04/24/2014 9:19:06 AM PDT by lbryce

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An X-37B robotic space plane sits on the Vandenberg Air Force base runway during post-landing operations on Dec. 3, 2010. Personnel in self-contained protective atmospheric suits conduct initial checks on the robot space vehicle after its landing.


Video:US Air Force's Mysterious X-37B Space Plane
A tiny robotic space shuttle the reusable X-37B looks like NASA's now-retired space shuttle, only much smaller. The robotic space plane is 29 feet (8.8 meters) long by 9.5 feet (2.9 m) tall with a wingspan of nearly 15 feet (4.6 m). Its payload bay is the size of a pickup truck bed. (The space shuttle's payload bay, by comparison, could fit two entire X-37Bs inside.)

That nobody knows a damm about what the thing is or does will only serve to be a good thing in regards to our enemies.

1 posted on 04/24/2014 9:19:06 AM PDT by lbryce
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To: SunkenCiv

You might find this interesting for your legion of fans.


2 posted on 04/24/2014 9:21:20 AM PDT by lbryce (Barack Hussein Obama:The Worst is Yet to Come)
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Those can’t be real space suits. They look even worse than the ones on Star Trek.


3 posted on 04/24/2014 9:23:42 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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USAF has always had crappy fashion sense in uniforms.

/johnny

4 posted on 04/24/2014 9:25:02 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Leonard Nimoy revealed that those “space suits” were made from shower curtains.


5 posted on 04/24/2014 9:26:30 AM PDT by apoxonu
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Probably the hydrazine made them do it.


6 posted on 04/24/2014 9:27:13 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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Spock obviously didn’t know what shower curtains were really for, if you take my meaning.


7 posted on 04/24/2014 9:28:38 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: lbryce

Let’s ask the Chinese military. They’ll tell us all about it.


8 posted on 04/24/2014 9:29:53 AM PDT by morphing libertarian
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Why don’t they cancel this thing and keep the A10 or develop the next A10?


9 posted on 04/24/2014 9:31:18 AM PDT by rey
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Nom Nom Nom

10 posted on 04/24/2014 9:31:44 AM PDT by corkoman
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not really knowing what it could do until it was tested — which is what they are doing now,

Either that, or it's space junk.
11 posted on 04/24/2014 9:34:29 AM PDT by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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I hadn’t noticed (too busy making sure the post was done right) but I definitely agree. They seem almost laughable, the comparison to Star Trek is right on.


12 posted on 04/24/2014 9:34:41 AM PDT by lbryce (Barack Hussein Obama:The Worst is Yet to Come)
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13 posted on 04/24/2014 9:34:50 AM PDT by Red Badger (Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
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LOL. Rod Serling would be proud. :-)


14 posted on 04/24/2014 9:36:20 AM PDT by lbryce (Barack Hussein Obama:The Worst is Yet to Come)
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NOT AS FUNNY AS THIS ONE..................

15 posted on 04/24/2014 9:39:08 AM PDT by Red Badger (Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

lmao.


16 posted on 04/24/2014 9:40:16 AM PDT by miliantnutcase
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Maybe not dinner date appropriate but costume party, yes.
17 posted on 04/24/2014 9:40:41 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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I can tell my space suit is closed, because yellow and blue make green! Thanks Ziploc!


18 posted on 04/24/2014 9:55:37 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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I think that Zero cancelled the program by decree so it will stay right where it is; its mission is classified, but it was probably intended to test-bed orbital space asset defense and attrition. Zero would be against anything that enhances national defense. Thanks l.


19 posted on 04/24/2014 9:58:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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I wonder what altitude it was orbiting?
Could it have been a LEO and it was able to boost
itself up as the orbit decayed, allowing longer
closer observation of earth?

At least some security is being held, anyway.


20 posted on 04/24/2014 10:00:00 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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