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| Mysterious US spaceplane returns to Earth | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 18 2014, 12:06 AM (196 Views) | |
| CJ | Oct 18 2014, 12:06 AM Post #1 |
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A very minor case of serious brain damage
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-29669205 A US plane on a top-secret, two-year mission to space has returned to Earth and landed in California. The aircraft, resembling a miniature space shuttle and known as the Orbital Test Vehicle or X-37B, spent 674 days in orbit around the planet. It touched down at Vandenberg Air Force Base on Friday morning. The purpose of the plane remains unclear - a theory that it was taking a look at China's space lab has recently been downplayed by experts. Air Force officials have only told US media the aircraft performs "risk reduction, experimentation and concept-of-operations development for reusable space vehicle technologies". Does anyone have any ideas as to what this might have been doing? My guess is that it was testing out technology for future spaceships - but doing a bit of spying while it had the chance .
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| Hedgehog121 | Oct 18 2014, 12:17 AM Post #2 |
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Spycraft no doubt but testing what they said it was. |
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| Mechanized | Oct 18 2014, 05:02 AM Post #3 |
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Yeah, i'm thinking the same |
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| GrieferLord | Oct 19 2014, 08:19 AM Post #4 |
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Tank Sniper
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new generation of spy plane, orbits out of the atmosphere, come get some SAM'S! |
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| Giselle | Oct 31 2014, 05:06 AM Post #5 |
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"If you consider how expensive a satellite mission is - several hundred million dollars - you'd like to be sure that any innovations are going to work straight out of the box." we better know about it.... |
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