Pat Corkery / United Launch Alliance
The X-37B lifts off... At 4:52 PM, Pacific Daylight Time yesterday, the Atlas V rocket carrying the experimental Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) launched on a flawless flight into Earth orbit...beginning what could be a 9-month mission to test out new technologies the U.S. Air Force would use in its quest to maintain superiority in space. Just joking about that one. Seriously though, one wonders what the USAF has up its sleeves if and when the OTV program is declared operational...assuming this current mission obviously concludes successfully, of course.
Craig Rubadoux / Florida Today
What will the X-37B eventually be used for? If you one day read in the newspaper that a volley of small but very explosive warheads suddenly dropped out of the sky and obliterated targets in North Korea and/or Iran (as speculated upon in my previous entry), then you’ll know the answer.
Just being facetious.
Karl Tate / SPACE.com
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