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  • Air Force prepares launch of X-37B set for December

    08/03/2008 1:02:29 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 8 replies · 41+ views
    Valley Press on ^ | Sunday, August 3, 2008. | ALLISON GATLIN
    The Air Force is preparing to test an unmanned spacecraft in orbit, with a launch scheduled for December. The X-37B is designed to perform long-duration testing in low-Earth orbit of new technologies. The unmanned vehicle will carry experiments into space, then return with them to Earth. The vehicle... operates autonomously in orbit and for re-entry and landing. This first orbital flight test of the vehicle will be used to determine the capabilities of the craft, said an Air Force spokesman, Lt. Col. Mark Brown. It is part of a former NASA program that was cut as the space agency focused...
  • The Best Memorial to MrConfettiMan Ever!

    05/05/2008 8:03:59 PM PDT · by Angelwood · 80 replies · 14+ views
    Explorer89 ^ | May 5, 2008 | Angelwood
    Explorer89, a very good friend of MrConfettiMan sent me this information to share. Click on the link above to get the pdf of an internal Goddard newsletter that describes the inscription on a reaction wheel that is going to the moon. Joe (FR's MrConfettiMan) wrote the software for the reaction wheel. Joe's article is on page 9. Since the pdf is a bit grainy, the inscription on the wheel is reproduced below: "The life of Joe Vitale ended far too early, but his work will carry on as the United States Space Program returns to the moon. The software Joe...