X-37 Space Plane to fly soon
Posted by Michael Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:07:00 GMT
Boeing built the X-37 in the 1990’s to be an unpiloted, autonomously operated vehicle to go into low earth orbit. It was abandoned by NASA and transferred to DARPA in 2004.
The X-37 is scheduled to be test flown by being dropped from the White Knight launch platform which is the same plane design that carried SpaceShipOne to it’s historic feat of reaching “space” and thus winning the Ansari X Prize.
