Failing again. Failing better.
I’ve previously written about the X-37B here, here, here, and here. The U.S. Air Force space plane recently landed, breaking space orbital endurance records. But as this Danger Room article points out, the international context of that record might be more important than many people think. The Danger Room article says that although the U.S.…
Remember the Air Force’s secret space plane, the X-37B? If you don’t, I talked about it here, here, and here. Launched in March of last year, the X-37B was originally supposed to return from space after only 270 days. Now it is scheduled to land sometime in mid-June. So what was the secret mission? What…
It’s been a while since I’ve done a “what if” post, but Wired’s Danger Room posted a story that was too good to resist. The story summarizes nine secret military programs that have experienced leaks to varying degrees. The programs include the USS Jimmy Carter, a specially-equipped spy sub; the Air Force’s X-37B space plane…
A while back, I wrote about the X-37B’s nine-month mission to space and it’s possible uses. It looks like the X-37B’s mission just got extended. NASA’s shuttles used fuel cells, but the X-37B is powered by a deployable solar array. This was supposed to give the craft a nine-month mission length, instead of the 2.5…
Wired’s Danger Room blog recently posted a story about the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B “Space Plane,” claiming it Boeing might soon scale it up to accommodate up to six astronauts. Danger Room questions this outcome, as do I. So I must ask, if not to carry humans, what will the ship be used for?. The…