{"id":8371,"date":"2010-12-07T00:30:53","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T05:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=8371"},"modified":"2010-12-07T00:48:18","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T05:48:18","slug":"x-37b-returns-to-vandenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/07\/x-37b-returns-to-vandenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"X-37B Returns to Vandenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The unmanned X-37B space vehicle (or &#8220;Orbital Test Vehicle 1&#8221;), <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/13\/air-force-to-launch-x-37b\/\">originally launched<\/a> in April,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123233244\">returned to Vandenberg AFB<\/a> after a seven-month mission described in only the vaguest terms by the Air Force:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The X-37B is the newest and most advanced re-entry spacecraft. Managed by the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, the X-37B program performs risk reduction, experimentation and concept of operations development for reusable space vehicle technologies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The vehicle and its mission remain a high point of speculation, particularly since its orbit &#8212; and its <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/19\/sky-searchers-seek-secret-space-plane\/\">orbital changes<\/a> &#8212; were widely visible.<\/p>\n<p>The craft was reportedly &#8220;successful&#8221; in its test mission, and suffered only a few dents from space debris and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2010\/12\/airforce-spaceship-returns-120610\/\">blown tire on its autonomous landing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unmanned X-37B space vehicle (or &#8220;Orbital Test Vehicle 1&#8221;), originally launched in April,\u00a0returned to Vandenberg AFB after a seven-month mission described in only the vaguest terms by the Air Force: The X-37B is the newest and most advanced re-entry spacecraft. Managed by the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, the X-37B program performs risk reduction, experimentation and concept of operations [&#8230;]<\/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":[134,2,1200,364],"class_list":["post-8371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-military","tag-space","tag-x-37b"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8371","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=8371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}