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Secret Space Plane to Launch Tomorrow On Second Secret Space Mission

Posted March 03, 2011 11:25 AM

From Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now:

Three months after its first mission ended, the military is launching another X-37B space plane on Friday, in a second classified mission for the X-37B program. If the weather holds up, the second X-37B orbiter will launch Friday afternoon on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, according to launch manager United Launch Alliance.

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03/03/2011 3:13 PM

Doesn't seem so secret to me.
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03/03/2011 6:17 PM

No, no , no... The secret is that it's made in China. :P

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03/04/2011 1:29 AM

What's the big secret-everything is made in China.

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03/04/2011 6:35 AM

It is a spy-plane, why else would it's role be secret?

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03/04/2011 7:07 PM

The Chinese already know all of the secrets regarding the X-37B mission through their extensive spy networks (and you thought that the old KGB was bad? Think again!).....a hell of a lot more than John Q Public who is footing the bill and will never know those secrets....

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