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AUTO... let's go back to earth...]]>Apr 23rd 2010 5:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/And I think it's gonna be a long long time
Till touch down brings me round again to find
I'm not the man they think I am at home
Oh no no no I'm a rocket man
Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone...

On a side note, does anyone know if Kentuckey still sells chicken nuggets?]]>Apr 23rd 2010 5:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/
And so the launch of skynet begins. ]]>Apr 23rd 2010 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/
Karl?
... you have a head like an f'ing orange!]]>Apr 23rd 2010 6:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/Apr 23rd 2010 8:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/
I bet google is behind this...]]>Apr 24th 2010 12:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/Apr 24th 2010 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/
1. Spend billions of dollars on project.
2. Throw it in space.
3. ?????
4. Loss :(]]>Apr 24th 2010 3:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/Invader Zim will come back, it won't be a loss.]]>Apr 24th 2010 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/
I just saw the after-effects from Orlando. Looked up and there was a curly cloud in the sky. I realized that it must have been the X-37B flight, as Popular Mechanics reported that it would launch mid-April.]]>Apr 24th 2010 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/Apr 23rd 2010 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/
Ahhh Rico ^_^]]>Apr 23rd 2010 6:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/I hope he had a cosmonaut suit as well]]>Apr 24th 2010 4:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/Apr 23rd 2010 5:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/that is, quite literally, how it's supposed to work.
they probably don't even monitor the thing, it's totally autonomous.

it'd be great to turn this thing into a supply shuttle for orbital platforms. several countries make one, they can ship stuff into space lightning-fast and don't risk any pilot's lives. Win-win to me]]>Apr 23rd 2010 5:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/Boy will they have egg on their faces when it decides it doesn't feel like coming back.
]]>Apr 23rd 2010 7:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/Apr 23rd 2010 5:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/Apr 23rd 2010 5:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/so we have to blow up the space station too if it doesnt come back? bummer]]>Apr 23rd 2010 8:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/Apr 24th 2010 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/Apr 26th 2010 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/Apr 23rd 2010 5:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/Apr 23rd 2010 5:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/
No, because it's going to catch some space plague and crash in the US. Then we have space plague everywhere!]]>Apr 23rd 2010 5:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/So... Left4Dead IRL?]]>Apr 23rd 2010 8:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/May 26th 2010 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/Apr 23rd 2010 5:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/
Toby Ziegler got fired for a story like this. ]]>Apr 23rd 2010 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7106714.ece]]>Apr 25th 2010 9:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/Apr 23rd 2010 5:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/Apr 23rd 2010 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/Apr 23rd 2010 5:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/Apr 23rd 2010 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/Apr 23rd 2010 5:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/Whatcha got on this, Airbus?]]>Apr 23rd 2010 5:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/
Airbus kills this it's just waiting until theirs never has to come back unless it wants to!]]>Apr 23rd 2010 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/
And before anyone says Airbus Military, thats a sub division created only for the A400M transporter plane.]]>Apr 23rd 2010 5:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/Apr 23rd 2010 6:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/
lol]]>Apr 23rd 2010 9:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/You mean, 'Lockheed'?]]>Apr 26th 2010 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/Apr 23rd 2010 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/Apr 23rd 2010 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/
It's a space version of the UAVs fying over afganistan and iraq. In space you can get to different locations much faster than being 30,000 feet in the air.]]>Apr 23rd 2010 7:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/
http://www.ulalaunch.com/site/PhotoGallery/Photo_gallery.shtml




















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Wow. Big payload. Itty bitty rocket.]]>Apr 24th 2010 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/boeing-x-37b-autonomous-space-shuttle-launched-last-night-due-b/
http://www.ulalaunch.com/site/Video/videos/AV/av_otv1_lh.wmv
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Yeah, it seems like it might be related some how. ]]>Apr 23rd 2010 6:38PM