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Unmanned Space Plane Sets 780 Day Record

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The Air Force’s mystery space plane landed at the Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility. It broke the record by orbiting for 780 days. This completed its fifth mission.

Originally posted by NPR:

As in previous missions, many of the details about the vehicle’s activities in the past two years are being kept under wraps. One experiment was to “test experimental electronics and oscillating heat pipe technologies in the long-duration space environment,” according to the Air Force statement.

Randy Walden, the director of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, said the latest X-37B mission “successfully hosted Air Force Research Laboratory experiments, among others, as well as providing a ride for small satellites.”

Some expressed concerns about the bit about the small satellites. One astronomer argued that this should’ve been registered with the UN. You could read more on NPR’s article.

From CBS Evening News: 

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19 thoughts on “Unmanned Space Plane Sets 780 Day Record”

  1. BZ Airedales, cool beans. Now if we can just make the F35 live up to expectations.

    And on the UN getting its’ britches bunched? Screw ’em! The UN and most of the rest of the world has been screwing the American Taxpayer for years.

      1. FUCK YOU N.U. When they move everyone out of Rikers Island, they should shut down the UN building, sell it to Trump and then move all the international delegates to Rikers.
        Fuck all of you right in the fuck holes.

        If you don’t like it, you can go back to your own second and third world shitholes and you can telecommmute on Skype.

        1. I got a better idea. How about those clowns move to Brussels instead? I believe that’s where the European Union is mainly controlled.

    2. Originally posted by 5th/77th FA:

      And on the UN getting its’ britches bunched? Screw ’em!

      I read somewhere that astronauts going to space have to be manifested with an international organization.

    3. The UN can suck a dick.

      As for the X-37, very cool. How close will it get us to the Moon?

      1. I can see it being used as a possible shuttle to the moon (saw this in the 2014 game Wolfenstein: The New Order). Give it time and it may even take us to Mars one day. You never know.

    4. FUCK THE United Nothing, if they’re truly as “Neutral” as they say then they ought to pack up and move to say, Geneva!!!

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