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Once at kennedy the x 37 is unloaded and towed to the opf where it is prepared for its next flight.
Military space shuttle. Then it built and flew its own mini shuttle drone and continues to test it on long missions. You could say that the x 37b stands on the shoulders of the space shuttle. Instead it used nasa s space shuttle fleet until 2011.
The news that the military had a space shuttle quietly orbiting earth for more than 700 days came as a surprise to some. The air force has two of these reusable space planes. It all sounds very james bond but the truth is that the military actually never had a secret space shuttle.
The shuttle landing facility at kennedy space center vandenberg air force base or edwards air force base. The now retired space shuttle orbiters by contrast were 122 feet 37 m long and measured more than 78 feet 24 m from wingtip to wingtip two x 37bs could fit inside the shuttle s cavernous. To return to kennedy space center the x 37 is placed into a payload canister and loaded into a boeing c 17 cargo plane.
However while there may be great interest within the military for a space force there s just not one out there. Military had a highly classified space shuttle of its own that was available for launch. The space shuttle was nasa s primary option for transporting astronauts to earth orbit between 1981 and 2011.
The few members of government who knew about the shuttle were unwilling to launch it however because using it would reveal its existence to the russian cosmonaut on the iss. Crews deployed satellites conducted experiments and studied the earth. Why didn t we know about this thing the reaction seemed to go.
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