[KevinDavis]

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

The bad news is that the vehicle experienced an "anomaly" and went off the runway, DARPA spokeswoman Jan Walker told me.

Oopsie.

[FormerACLUmember]

[NormsRevenge]

http://www.skyrocket.de/space/doc_sdat/x-37.htm

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NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

[narby]

A robotic space plane was dropped today at high altitude, touching down under autonomous control, but encountered difficulties on landing and rolled off the end of a runway.

More at the link.

[JeffersonRepublic.com]

[...the vehicle experienced an "anomaly" and went off the runway...]

Quick hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete and reboot before we crash.

Soon to be installed on all government space vehicles.

[SunkenCiv]

Everyday Astronaut
by Scott Gourley
June 21 2004
Popular Mechanics
reprised from

Publicly thanking Paul G. Allen, who admitted to investing more than $20 million in the project, Rutan appeared to physically choke up when he said, "We were able to develop a complete space program from scratch for the price of one of those government paper studies.".