It's Baaack! XB-37B Finally Lands

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Posted by timothy on Saturday June 16, 2012 @12:29PM from the ready-for-a-nice-classified-nap dept.

ColdWetDog writes "The US Air Force / DARPA 'baby shuttle,' the Boeing-built XB-37B has just landed after 469 days in orbit. No official explanation of why controllers kept the mission going past the original duration of 270 days other than 'because we could.' I, for one, welcome our long duration, unmanned orbital overlords."

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Re:Possibly they wanted to observe the Chinese lau (Score:2, Informative)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday June 16, 2012 @02:02PM (#40345437)

On another note, I noticed that all the North American news agencies are calling the Chinese female, going into space, an "astronaut". Isn't the correct term "taikonaut"?
No. "Taikonaut" is a term some western media outlet came up with to sound cool. The Chinese government themselves refer to them as "astronauts" in their own English press releases.

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Re:Small reusable manned craft (Score:4, Informative)

by ModernGeek ( 601932 ) writes: on Saturday June 16, 2012 @03:05PM (#40345769)

Look up the X-37C

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