X-37B lands at Vandenberg
Posted: Sun, Jun 17, 2012, 9:40 AM ET (1340 GMT)
An experimental robotic spaceplane completed a 15-month mission on Saturday with a landing at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The X-37B OTV-2 landed successfully on the main runway at Vandenberg at 5:48 am PDT (8:48 am EDT, 1248 GMT) Saturday. The vehicle had been in space 469 days, since its launch in early March of 2011 on an Atlas 5 rocket from Florida. The Air Force has not disclosed the nature of the X-37B's mission other than that it performs "risk reduction, experimentation and concept of operations development" for reusable launch vehicle technologies. This is the second X-37B to fly in space. The first X-37B spent 224 days in space in 2010 and is being prepared for another launch this fall.
An experimental robotic spaceplane completed a 15-month mission on Saturday with a landing at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The X-37B OTV-2 landed successfully on the main runway at Vandenberg at 5:48 am PDT (8:48 am EDT, 1248 GMT) Saturday. The vehicle had been in space 469 days, since its launch in early March of 2011 on an Atlas 5 rocket from Florida. The Air Force has not disclosed the nature of the X-37B's mission other than that it performs "risk reduction, experimentation and concept of operations development" for reusable launch vehicle technologies. This is the second X-37B to fly in space. The first X-37B spent 224 days in space in 2010 and is being prepared for another launch this fall.
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