{"id":18361,"date":"2012-07-05T01:34:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T04:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=18361"},"modified":"2012-07-05T01:34:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T04:34:00","slug":"secretive-x-37b-ends-15-month-space-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/05\/secretive-x-37b-ends-15-month-space-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Secretive X-37B Ends 15 Month Space Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 16th the Air Force&#8217;s X-37B unmanned spaceplane <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123306243\">landed at Vandenberg AFB<\/a>, California.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, one of two such vehicles, spent 469 days in orbit to conduct on-orbit experiments, primarily checkout of the vehicle itself&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Managed by the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, the X-37B <!--more-->program performs risk reduction, experimentation, and concept of operations development for reusable space vehicle technologies. The X-37B mission is the longest space mission only after the NASA Discovery shuttle program.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The X-37 has been a subject of much speculation over its <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/29\/x-37b-still-in-space\/\">unusual mission length<\/a> and undisclosed purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 16th the Air Force&#8217;s X-37B unmanned spaceplane landed at Vandenberg AFB, California. The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, one of two such vehicles, spent 469 days in orbit to conduct on-orbit experiments, primarily checkout of the vehicle itself&#8230; Managed by the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, the X-37B<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[134,2,1200,1559,364],"class_list":["post-18361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-military","tag-space","tag-vandenberg","tag-x-37b"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}