Boeing X-37 - Record-breaking reusable unmanned spacecraft

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Boeing X-37, also known as the X-37 Orbital Test Vehicle, is a reusable unmanned spacecraft, operated by the United States Air Force for orbital spaceflight missions intended to demonstrate reusable space technologies. Boosted into space by a rocket, then re-entering Earth's atmosphere and landing as a spaceplane having spent 469 days in space, the X-37 successfully completed its mission, though most of the mission parameters for the first flight have not been disclosed, as it still remains a a classified project. Learn more about what is known about the mysterious robotic vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing spaceplane in the following pages.

Product details

• Assisted by: Edward R. Miller-Jones (Editor), Edwar R Miller-Jones (Editor)
• Publisher: FastBook Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.07.2012
• EAN: 9786130136444
• ISBN: 978-613-0-13644-4
• No. of pages: 104
• Subject: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel