by "facw" (facw)
Published 05/08/2017 at 00:30
by "facw" (facw)
Published 05/08/2017 at 00:30
Tags: Spacelopnik
; Planelopnik
; Spaceplanelopnik
; X-37B
; Florida
; Florida non-Man
STARS: 1
After 718 days in space, the Air Force’s robotic space plane landed at Kennedy Space Center on Sunday, becoming the first spacecraft to land on the runway there since the shuttle was retired. Still no definitive word on what it was actually doing (the Air Force claims it is just a technology testbed).
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"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
05/08/2017 at 00:37, STARS: 2
The real question is who is using this bed... And what kind of testing are they doing? Will we finally know?
"DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time" (dc3ls-)
05/08/2017 at 00:42, STARS: 0
I just wanna know why they’re wearing those suits.
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
05/08/2017 at 00:43, STARS: 1
I wrote about the X-37B a few weeks ago, updating the post I made about it a year ago. At the time, I tried to find out if it was still in space or not. It was very hard to find any sort of current info on it. Everything said “expected to” or “thought to be.” It must be doing some sort of reconnaissance. It sure would be interesting to know the truth!
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
05/08/2017 at 00:45, STARS: 5
Nasty chemicals in the rocket fuel, perhaps hydrazine . Once they’re sure it isn’t leaking, they’ll take off the suits.
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
05/08/2017 at 00:45, STARS: 0
If that sort of thing interests you, read some Frederik Pohl.
"Viggen" (viggen37)
05/08/2017 at 00:46, STARS: 3
Rocket fuel, radiation, think it was SOP for STS ops as well.
"facw" (facw)
05/08/2017 at 00:46, STARS: 0
Given over 50 years of spaceflight, including mixed gender spaceflight for three and a half decades, it seems extremely likely someone has already tried that, even if no one will admit to it.
So I think this bed must be testing something different?
"Viggen" (viggen37)
05/08/2017 at 00:47, STARS: 2
Welcome back mysterious orbital recon/ nuke delivery space plane.
"Cherry_man1" (Cherry_man1)
05/08/2017 at 00:51, STARS: 0
North Korean Syping ops I bet!
"RallyWrench" (rndlitebmw)
05/08/2017 at 00:52, STARS: 1
I don’t much care for programs that they publicize but don’t say shit about. I remember the last time this thing came down (V-berg isn’t far from here), it was the same deal. “The space plane is back, but we know nothing!”
"For Sweden" (rallybeetle)
05/08/2017 at 00:53, STARS: 1
The USAF only acknowledges it because it’s so easy to track.
"For Sweden" (rallybeetle)
05/08/2017 at 00:54, STARS: 4
For every classified aerospace mission, there’s an engineer somewhere confused by the collected data.
"ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable)" (adabofoppo)
05/08/2017 at 01:25, STARS: 1
I’m guessing that they sent it up there to fuck with our timeline. It’s the only reasonable explanation for why the US elected a spray-tanned Baboon ass as Pres*dent and France chose to keep things stable.
"Viggen" (viggen37)
05/08/2017 at 01:28, STARS: 0
It makes it that much more interesting, in my opinion.
"RallyWrench" (rndlitebmw)
05/08/2017 at 01:40, STARS: 0
Interesting, absolutely. As in, I’m very interested to know what they’re doing with our money up there. I absolutely support funding NASA space programs, but when the military gets involved and is mum about it, I have to wonder. As a boy, I ate up articles hypothesizing about the “Aurora” project, and actually saw the F117 fly over my house at dusk, before it was revealed to the public. I still love that stuff, but those are atmospheric aircraft. Any possibility of militarizing space concerns me, as inevitable as it may be. Maybe I still have a little too idealistic view of what space should mean to us, how small the cosmos should make us feel as a planet.
"RallyWrench" (rndlitebmw)
05/08/2017 at 01:45, STARS: 0
I believe that.
"Viggen" (viggen37)
05/08/2017 at 02:00, STARS: 1
Honestly I feel that space was militarized the moment it became a highway for nuclear weapons delivery and strategic reconnaissance.
"RallyWrench" (rndlitebmw)
05/08/2017 at 02:08, STARS: 0
Yup. Hence why I’m struggling to maintain my idealism.
"NoahthePorscheGuy" (porsche)
05/08/2017 at 03:55, STARS: 0
did you see the icbm’s that launched last week?
"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
05/08/2017 at 08:42, STARS: 1
I wish I had found this before I read the post on Giz about this.... I don’t know if its policy to HAVE to reference a horrible emoji filled tweet with every story or not, but I hate it.
"facw" (facw)
05/08/2017 at 08:54, STARS: 0
To be fair, the newspaper article I linked to (which Kinja was showing last night, but now seems to have discarded) did misspell “shook” as “shoot” in their summary, which is not exactly high journalism.
"RallyWrench" (rndlitebmw)
05/08/2017 at 12:48, STARS: 0
Unfortunately not, that was an early morning launch, right? I used to get up for those, but with little kids sleep is precious.
"NoahthePorscheGuy" (porsche)
05/08/2017 at 13:43, STARS: 0
It was a midnight launch.
"Frank Grimes" (FrankGrimes)
05/08/2017 at 15:50, STARS: 0
I think this thing is pretty cool and seeing it land knowing the thing flies itself and been in space for 2 years but its a pretty short lived admiration because the one question I have is what the heck it been doin? Some people speculate testing an ion engine.