{"id":4654,"date":"2010-04-13T00:30:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T08:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=4654"},"modified":"2010-04-12T21:07:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T05:07:40","slug":"air-force-to-launch-x-37b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/13\/air-force-to-launch-x-37b\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force to Launch X-37B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US military hasn&#8217;t completely abandoned experimental (and classified) missions, as evidenced by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/scitech\/2010\/04\/03\/air-force-launch-robotic-spacecraft\/\">announced April 19 launch of the X-37B<\/a>, an orbital test vehicle.\u00a0 The vehicle appears to be a winged reusable vehicle with traditional landing gear.\u00a0 Commentators are somewhat confused as to its ultimate purpose, lending support to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/scitech\/2009\/10\/22\/mums-word-nasas-secret-space-plane-x-b\/\">theories it will support classified missions<\/a>, as well as a variety of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/36425763\/ns\/technology_and_science-space\/\">Air Force experimental operations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The X-37B has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?storyID=123032226\">in development for years<\/a> (and was even originally scheduled for a 2008 launch).\u00a0 Various reports indicated that the unmanned vehicle might be intended to stay in orbit for up to 9 months before conducting its own re-entry and landing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US military hasn&#8217;t completely abandoned experimental (and classified) missions, as evidenced by the announced April 19 launch of the X-37B, an orbital test vehicle.\u00a0 The vehicle appears to be a winged reusable vehicle with traditional landing gear.\u00a0 Commentators are somewhat confused as to its ultimate purpose, lending support to the theories it will support classified missions, as well as [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[21,364],"class_list":["post-4654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-nasa","tag-x-37b"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4654","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=4654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}