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Article: Aerospace & Defense News - Defense.(Company overview)
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- AirGuide Business
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- June 8, 2009
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New York (AirGuideBusiness - Defense News) Jun 7, 2009
U.S. Air Force Aims to Launch Space Plane Next Year. It has been a long haul to the launch pad, but the U.S. Air Force and Boeing are gearing up to loft the X-37B [ETH] an unpiloted military space plane, SPACE.com has learned. Tucked inside the shroud of an Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV), the winged craft will be boosted out of Cape Canaveral, Florida, orbit the Earth and then make an auto-pilot landing in California. The X-37B OTV-1 (Orbital Test Vehicle 1) is currently on the launch manifest for January 2010, explained U.S. Air Force Captain Elizabeth Aptekar, who works in media operations ...