X-37B lands at Kennedy after spending 718 days in orbit
One of the Air Force’s two X-37B mini-shuttles landed today on the old shuttle runway at the Kennedy Space Center after spending 718 days in orbit.
This was the first landing at Kennedy, which also places the vehicle right at Boeing’s facility for maintaining it.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
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"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
One of the Air Force’s two X-37B mini-shuttles landed today on the old shuttle runway at the Kennedy Space Center after spending 718 days in orbit.
This was the first landing at Kennedy, which also places the vehicle right at Boeing’s facility for maintaining it.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
landing video at:
“US tested a secret military aircraft X37B”
https://youtu.be/X2rVIbZC36Q
(1:43)
Earlier landing video, recovery, and trip back to the hangar (X37b)
https://youtu.be/0yeD8PjaWO4
(2:32)
Nice videos Wayne, second one, being better then the first. Impressive how small these craft are considering the sonic boom it gave off as it streaked across the Florida sky.