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Dabney B. on
Tuesday, September 25th, 2012
The US military is gearing up to launch the super top-secret X-37B back into space… again. This time they’re calling the mission Orbital Test Vehicle-3, or OTV-3 for the third such test. This flight will involve the X-37B that was ...
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Dabney B. on
Thursday, August 30th, 2012
There’s almost a poetic balance in the fact that Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon, died around the same time that Curiosity touched down on Mars. The world’s most famous astronaut has passed away, but ...
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Dabney B. on
Monday, July 23rd, 2012
For the past year-and-a-half, the USAF has been openly but quietly parading the top-secret X-37B across the night sky. They've been announcing its launch and return schedule, but past that the actual purpose of the spacecraft is a big mystery.
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Dabney B. on
Wednesday, June 20th, 2012
It's been a long 15 months of speculation, curiosity, and tight-lipped Air Force personnel ever since the X-37B went into space. The X-37B has just landed, and many of us thought that maybe -- just maybe -- the USAF would share ...
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Dabney B. on
Monday, June 18th, 2012
Space is unofficially a neutral zone. Sure, the governments of the world have filled orbital space with a cloud of spy satellites that are used for military purposes, but so far military organizations haven't been launching weapons into space. Pulling off ...
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